Imagining Empire: Political Space in Hellenistic and Roman Literature

By Associate Professor in Latin Language and Literature Victoria Rimell

This volume investigates space in Greek and Latin literature as a real and imaginary dimension in which social relations, identities, power and knowledge are materialized, represented and (re)performed. The twelve contributors focus on Hellenistic Alexandria and late Republican to early imperial Rome, yet the essays range from Greece, Egypt and Italy to the Black Sea, Asia and North Africa, taking in Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Virgil, Statius, and Juvenal along the way. As well as offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the third century BCE to the second century CE, the volume attempts to respond critically and imaginatively to the still-burgeoning body of work on space across the humanities in the wake of post-colonialist and poststructuralist thinking, and considers its potentially challenging implications for Classics as an evolving field of study.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825367541
• ISBN13: 9783825367541
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 264 Pages