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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (30 Seiten)
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: 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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Rüpke, Jörg

Further information

• DOI: 10.1628/rre-2023-0025
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024031502302259437289
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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