Space, Narrative, and Historical Imagination in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita

Virginia Fabrizi is Ricercatrice (RtdB) in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She has published on Roman epic and historiography, including the monograph Mores veteresque novosque: rappresentazioni del passato e del presente di Roma negli Annales di Ennio (2012).

• ContentsHistoriography of Rome and Its Empire SeriesAcknowledgementsAbbreviations, Texts, and TranslationsIntroduction: Space, Narrative, and Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita1 The City, the World, and the Space of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita2 Space, Human Experience, and Narrative3 Space, Roman Historiography, and the Ab Urbe Condita4 Space in the Ab Urbe Condita: State of the Art and Open Questions5 A Narratology of Space6 An Outline of This Book1 Strife, Reconciliation, and Change in the Forum Romanum1 Writing the City2 Setting the Scene: Livy’s Forum3 A Space Torn Apart: the Forum in Livy’s Struggle of the Orders4 Forum and Curia in an Expanding World5 Permanence, Change, and Political Symbolism in Livy’s Forum2 The Space of the City1 Founding the City: Book 12 The Capitol3 Other Hills4 The Campus Martius5 Boundaries: Tiber, Walls, Gates, and Janiculum6 Synthetic Views of the City Space7 Rome in the Ab Urbe Condita3 The Space of Battle1 Shaping Military Space in the Ab Urbe Condita2 Standard Military Space3 Topography4 The Spatial Vocabulary of Battle: War, Conquest, and Control4 The Semantics of Space and Gender1 Space, Gender, and Narrative2 Spatial Transgressions I: Men in (Other Men’s) Private Spaces3 Spatial Transgressions II: Women in Public Space4 Liminal Spaces5 Subverting Roman Space I: Verginia and the Decemvirate6 Subverting Roman Space II: the Bacchanalian Scandal7 Gender, Power, and Space in the Ab Urbe ConditaConclusions: Livy’s Vocabulary of Space1 Space, Semantics, and Historical Imagination2 Relational Space, Control, and Emotion3 How to Make the State Function: Space and Livy’s Political VisionReferenced WorksIndex