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Virgil and the conquest of chaos
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Nicholas Horsfall
Published: 27 October 2020
... sow anad piglets Latium Virgil’s peaceful image of Lavinia Aborigines Latini Macrobius 3 16 12 Meleager Virgilian sources Roman topography Virgil’s catalogues Virgilian allusions Trojans Varro The hunt for Virgil’s sources has been, by unspoken agreement among Latinists, largely abandoned...
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The Caudine Forks: Topography and illusion
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Nicholas Horsfall
Published: 27 October 2020
... 4 2 Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1 45 4 Gellius praef 4 Orosius 3 15 3 Zonaras 7 26 Dindorf est locus formula Samnites Virgil toponymy topographical writing Curtius 3 4 11f Roman topography Livy Samnites Arienzo–Arpaia valley Samnite Wars The topographical problems involved in Livy’s...
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Illusion and reality in Latin topographical writing
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Nicholas Horsfall
Published: 27 October 2020
... Severan marble plan Roman topography topographical writing Polybius Livy Virgil Menander Rhetor formulaic description locus est literary imitation From Cluverius and Holstenius, through Nissen and Hülsen to the distinguished contributors to the Quaderni dell’Istituto di Topografia antica ...
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Published online: 01 January 2010
Published in print: 06 June 2002
... to the Christianization of Rome. The author surveys the laws and political considerations which governed the building policy of Constantine and his successors, the effect of papal building and commemorative constructions on Roman topography, the continuing ambivalence of the Roman festal calendar, and the conflict...
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Roman Topography and Images of the City
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Pamela O. Long
Published: 20 November 2018
...This chapter treats the sixteenth-century study of Roman topography and antiquarian studies by antiquarians such as Bartolomeo Marliani. It also discusses a related activity, the creation of maps and urban images of Rome. The chapter reviews the development of the ichnographic or measured map from...
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Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome
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Christopher Siwicki
Published online: 21 November 2019
Published in print: 12 December 2019
... that the theme of memory has received in research on Roman topography, it is appropriate to explain why this present investigation on heritage tends to avoid using the term in certain contexts. While many studies discuss the relationship between the buildings of ancient Rome and ideas of memory without explicit...
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