Delineating and Blurring Urban Space and Urban Atmosphere in Roman Elegy : Tibullus Construction of Urbanity by Poetic and Religious Means

Zusammenfassung: Urban space cannot be identified independently of the people that turned a settlement into a city by their practices and discourses. For the city of Rome and the massive expansion and change of its space in the Augustan period, the voices of contemporary poets are invaluable. How did their texts conceive of the city, how did their speakers and protagonists live the city, how did they distinguish between urban and non-urban spaces? And how did these texts use religion? Employing the concepts of urbanity and regionalisations, this article analyses the second book of Albius Tibullus, a poet typically seen as invested in rural escapism. It is argued that the basic dichotomy of city and countryside is elaborated into a complex web of overlapping spaces. Religious rituals and divine figures are central for the construction and the blurring of the urban-rural divide

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (30 Seiten)
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Delineating and Blurring Urban Space and Urban Atmosphere in Roman Elegy ; volume:9 ; number:3 ; year:2023 ; pages:395-424 ; PublicationDate: 20240306 ; Religion in the Roman empire ; 9, Heft 3 (2023), 395-424

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Rüpke, Jörg

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1628/rre-2023-0025
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024031502302259437289
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 2025-08-14T11:03:21+0200