Livy's written Rome
Livy's Written Rome shows how one writer explored the relationships among events in Roman history, the landscape in which they occurred, and the monuments that commemorated them. While Augustus reconstructed the physical city to reflect the ideology of the Empire, the historian Livy created a written Rome and taught his readers to look beyond the city's dramatically altered landscape. In so doing, they gained insight into the lessons of the lost Republic. Drawing upon modern discourse on the connection between private mental spaces and public civic spaces, this first indepth study of Livy's use of the urban landscape offers discerning views on his interpretation of ancient theories of historiography. Livy's Written Rome discusses the Roman idea of the monument as a place where memory and space intersect and includes fresh readings of several historical episodes, including the battle over the Sabine Women, the sedition of Marcus Manlius, and the trials of the Scipios
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1997
History
xii, 205 pages ; 24 cm
9780472107896, 0472107895
37011272
The history as a monument
The battle in the Forum
The rise and fall of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus
Memory and monuments in the Second Punic War
The trials of the Scipios