Space, Narrative, and Historical Imagination in Livy's AB Urbe Condita

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73319-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire

The surviving books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (written ca. 30 – 15 BCE), narrate the origins of Rome, the gradual growth of the city, and its rise to Mediterranean hegemony. This monograph reads Livy’s work as, among other things, a narrative about space – the space of the city and the space of the world which Rome strives to conquer and control. Using a narratological approach, it analyses how the text constructs the settings of historical events through an interplay of historical information, literary or conventional elements, and spatial semantics. In this way, it sheds light on Livy’s interpretation of politics, empire, conquest, and Roman identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabrizi, Virginia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations

Introduction: Space, Narrative, and Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita 1 The City, the World, and the Space of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita 2 Space, Human Experience, and Narrative 3 Space, Roman Historiography, and the Ab Urbe Condita 4 Space in the Ab Urbe Condita: State of the Art and Open Questions 5 A Narratology of Space 6 An Outline of This Book

1 Strife, Reconciliation, and Change in the Forum Romanum 1 Writing the City 2 Setting the Scene: Livy’s Forum 3 A Space Torn Apart: the Forum in Livy’s Struggle of the Orders 4 Forum and Curia in an Expanding World 5 Permanence, Change, and Political Symbolism in Livy’s Forum

2 The Space of the City 1 Founding the City: Book 1 2 The Capitol 3 Other Hills 4 The Campus Martius 5 Boundaries: Tiber, Walls, Gates, and Janiculum 6 Synthetic Views of the City Space 7 Rome in the Ab Urbe Condita

3 The Space of Battle 1 Shaping Military Space in the Ab Urbe Condita 2 Standard Military Space 3 Topography 4 The Spatial Vocabulary of Battle: War, Conquest, and Control

4 The Semantics of Space and Gender 1 Space, Gender, and Narrative 2 Spatial Transgressions I: Men in (Other Men’s) Private Spaces 3 Spatial Transgressions II: Women in Public Space 4 Liminal Spaces 5 Subverting Roman Space I: Verginia and the Decemvirate 6 Subverting Roman Space II: the Bacchanalian Scandal 7 Gender, Power, and Space in the Ab Urbe Condita

Conclusions: Livy’s Vocabulary of Space 1 Space, Semantics, and Historical Imagination 2 Relational Space, Control, and Emotion 3 How to Make the State Function: Space and Livy’s Political Vision

Referenced Works

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Virginia Fabrizi is Ricercatrice (RtdB) in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She has published on Roman epic and historiography, including the monograph Mores veteresque novosque: rappresentazioni del passato e del presente di Roma negli Annales di Ennio (2012).