God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination
God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination
- ISBN 13:
9780199675524
- ISBN 10:
019967552X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/28/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. Through studying interior spaces, both secular (basilicas, colonnades, and forums) and sacred spaces (the temples where the Romans looked upon their gods) and their representation in poetry, the volume also follows the development of an architecture of the interior in the great Roman public works of the first and second centuries AD. While providing new insights into the working of the Romans' imagination, it also offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.