• Introduction; Part I. The Transformation of Cultural Systems: 1. Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 2. The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome Thomas Habinek; 3. Recitatio and the reorganization of the space of public discourse Florence Dupont; Part II. Texts and Contexts: 4. The boundaries of knowledge in Virgil's Georgics Alessandro Schiesaro; 5. Ut arte emendaturus fortunam, Horace, Nasidienus and the art of satire Ellen Oliensis; 6. Horace and the material culture of Augustan Rome: a revisionary reading Eleanor Winsor Leach; 7. Images of the city: Propertius' new-old Rome Elaine Fantham; 8. Livy's revolution: civic identity and the creation of the Res publica Andrew Feldherr; 9. Concealing/revealing: gender and the play of meaning in the monuments of Augustan Rome Barbara Kellum; 10. Questions of authority: the invention of tradition in Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 Philip Hardie; 11. A preface to the history of declamation: whose speech? whose history? Martin Bloomer.

"Unquestionably the volume will be influential in the effort to bring cultural studies into the classical fold. The editors and participants have made laudable efforts to reverse assumptions that cultural artifacts are products of socio-political circumstances." Katherine O. Eldred, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• Introduction; Part I. The Transformation of Cultural Systems: 1. Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 2. The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome Thomas Habinek; 3. Recitatio and the reorganization of the space of public discourse Florence Dupont; Part II. Texts and Contexts: 4. The boundaries of knowledge in Virgil's Georgics Alessandro Schiesaro; 5. Ut arte emendaturus fortunam, Horace, Nasidienus and the art of satire Ellen Oliensis; 6. Horace and the material culture of Augustan Rome: a revisionary reading Eleanor Winsor Leach; 7. Images of the city: Propertius' new-old Rome Elaine Fantham; 8. Livy's revolution: civic identity and the creation of the Res publica Andrew Feldherr; 9. Concealing/revealing: gender and the play of meaning in the monuments of Augustan Rome Barbara Kellum; 10. Questions of authority: the invention of tradition in Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 Philip Hardie; 11. A preface to the history of declamation: whose speech? whose history? Martin Bloomer.

"Unquestionably the volume will be influential in the effort to bring cultural studies into the classical fold. The editors and participants have made laudable efforts to reverse assumptions that cultural artifacts are products of socio-political circumstances." Katherine O. Eldred, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• Introduction; Part I. The Transformation of Cultural Systems: 1. Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 2. The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome Thomas Habinek; 3. Recitatio and the reorganization of the space of public discourse Florence Dupont; Part II. Texts and Contexts: 4. The boundaries of knowledge in Virgil's Georgics Alessandro Schiesaro; 5. Ut arte emendaturus fortunam, Horace, Nasidienus and the art of satire Ellen Oliensis; 6. Horace and the material culture of Augustan Rome: a revisionary reading Eleanor Winsor Leach; 7. Images of the city: Propertius' new-old Rome Elaine Fantham; 8. Livy's revolution: civic identity and the creation of the Res publica Andrew Feldherr; 9. Concealing/revealing: gender and the play of meaning in the monuments of Augustan Rome Barbara Kellum; 10. Questions of authority: the invention of tradition in Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 Philip Hardie; 11. A preface to the history of declamation: whose speech? whose history? Martin Bloomer.

"Unquestionably the volume will be influential in the effort to bring cultural studies into the classical fold. The editors and participants have made laudable efforts to reverse assumptions that cultural artifacts are products of socio-political circumstances." Katherine O. Eldred, Bryn Mawr Classical Review