{"product_id":"god-space-city-in-richard-jenkyns-9780199675524","title":"God, Space, \u0026 City in the Roman Imagination","description":"\u003cem\u003eGod, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenkyns 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Jenkyns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019967552X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199675524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Richard Jenkyns","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054730178815,"sku":"9780199675524","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88fb3133-71f0-4e22-adbb-5a1382140bba.jpg?v=1685031657","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/god-space-city-in-richard-jenkyns-9780199675524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}