The Production of Space in Latin Literature

After taking a BA in Classics at Oxford (1974) and a PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton (1980), William Fitzgerald taught for 23 years in the US, at the University of California, San Diego and Berkeley. He returned to the UK in 2003 and taught at Cambridge University until 2007, when he became Professor of Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. He has published books and articles on Latin literature, especially poetry, and on classical reception.Efrossini (Efi) Spentzou studied first for a degree in Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, graduating in 1991, before coming to Oxford to study for an MSt and then a PhD in Classics. She was appointed to Royal Holloway in 2000 where she is now Reader in Latin Literature and Classical Reception. She has published on Latin poetry, notably Ovid, the literature and culture of the late first century AD, and on classical reception; her work focuses on the interfaces between literary theory and Classics.

• Frontmatter List of Contributors 0: William Fitzgerald and Efrossini Spentzou: Introduction 1: Efrossini Spentzou: Propertius' Aberrant Itineraries: Fleeting Moments in the Eternal City 2: Diana Spencer: Varro's Roman Ways: Metastasis and Etymology 3: Jared Hudson: Obviam: The Space of Vehiculation in Latin Literature 4: David H. J. Larmour: Juvenal in the Specular City 5: Maxine Lewis: Gender, Geography, and Genre: Catullus' Constructions of Lesbia in Space and Time 6: William Fitzgerald: The Space of the Poem: Imperial Trajectories in Catullus and Horace 7: Catharine Edwards: On Not Being in Rome: Exile and Displacement in Seneca's Prose 8: Therese Fuhrer: Carthage Rome Milan: 'Lieux de passage' in Augustine's Confessions 9: Shreyaa Bhatt: Exiled in Rome: The Writing of Other Spaces in Tacitus' Annales 10: Richard Alston: The Utopian City in Tacitus' Agricola 11: Victoria Rimell: Rome's Dire Straits: Claustrophobic Seas and imperium sine fundo Endmatter Index

A delightful offering, then, that hopefully will kickstart a new appreciation of space.