C,,,dge U-ity Pr.ss | 2011 | ISBN: 1107000963 | 200 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
Walking served as an occasion for the display of power and status in
ancient Rome, where great men paraded with their entourages through city
streets and elite villa owners strolled with friends in private
colonnades and gardens. In this first
book-length treatment of the culture of walking in ancient Rome, Timothy
O’Sullivan explores the careful attention which Romans paid to the way
they moved through their society. He employs a wide range of literary,
artistic, and architectural evidence to reveal the crucial role that
walking played in the performance of social status, the discourse of the
body and the representation of space. By examining how Roman authors
depict walking, this book sheds new light on the Romans themselves – not
only how they perceived themselves and their experience of the world,
but also how they drew distinctions between work and play, mind and
body, and republic and empire.