Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Roma, recepta : a topography of the imagination / David H.J. Larmour and Diana Spencer
  • Rome at a gallop : Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void / Diana Spencer
  • 'In the name of the father' : Ovid's Theban law / Micaela Janan
  • 'I get around' : sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal / Paul Allen Miller
  • Holes in the body : sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome / David H.J. Larmour
  • Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash
  • The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta
  • Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins
  • Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout
  • Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina
  • The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.