The Augustan Space

Augustus famously boasted that having inherited a city of brick he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City''s physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with geography topography and monumentality that dominates Augustan culture and in particular Augustan poetry and poetics. Contributors to the present volume bring a range of approaches to bear on the works of Horace Virgil Propertius and Ovid and explore their construction and representation of Greek Roman and imperial space; centre and periphery; relations between written monuments and the physical City; movement within beyond and away from Rome; gendered and heterotopic spaces; and Rome itself as caput mundi as cosmopolis and as ''heavenly city''. The introduction considers the wider cultural importance of space and monumentality in first-century Rome and situates the volume''s key themes within the context of the spatial turn in Classical Studies.