1st Edition
Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Traversing Empire
Micah Young Myers and Erika Zimmermann Damer
2 The Stage at The Fair: Trade and Human Trafficking in the Palliata
Amy Richlin
3 Expanding Geographies and Unbounded Subjects in Catullus
Sara H. Lindheim
4 Arcadia and the Roman Imagination
Eleanor W. Leach
5 Women’s Travels in Latin Elegy
Alison Keith
6 On the Road with Tibullus: Aporia or Castration as the Way of Love
Paul Allen Miller
7 Competing Itineraries, Travel, and Urban Subjectivity in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria
Erika Zimmermann Damer
8 Statius’ Propemptikon and the Geopoetics of Silvae 3.2
Carole E. Newlands
9 Martial, Spain, and the Girls from Gades: Travel and Identity in Flavian Epigram
Sarah H. Blake
10 Memory Spaces of Ausonius and Rutilius Namatianus
Grant Parker
11 Travelers and Texts: Reading, Writing, and Communication on the Roads of the Roman West
Alexander Meyer
Index
Biography
Micah Young Myers is Associate Professor of Classics at Kenyon College, USA. He is the co-editor of Walking through Elysium: Vergil’s Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition. He is preparing a monograph on travel in Latin love elegy.
Erika Zimmermann Damer is Associate Professor of Classics and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. She is the author of In the Flesh: Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy. Her publications also include essays on Tibullus, Propertius, Horace, and graffiti from Herculaneum and Pompeii.
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