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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut. - 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 children�s literature (Marina Balina) -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini�s films: �not a human habitation but a psychical entity� (Elena Theodorakopoulos). ISBN 9780199217496