David H. J. Larmour is Professor and Head of Classics, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University.Diana Spencer is Lecturer in Classics, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.

• Introduction: Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination ; 1. Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void ; 2. 'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law ; 3. 'I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal ; 4. Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome ; 5. Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 ; 6. The gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope ; 7. Staging Rome: the renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis ; 8. Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview ; 9. Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature ; 10. The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films: 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity'

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David H. J. Larmour is Professor and Head of Classics, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University.Diana Spencer is Lecturer in Classics, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.

• Introduction: Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination ; 1. Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void ; 2. 'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law ; 3. 'I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal ; 4. Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome ; 5. Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 ; 6. The gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope ; 7. Staging Rome: the renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis ; 8. Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview ; 9. Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature ; 10. The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films: 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity'

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David H. J. Larmour is Professor and Head of Classics, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University.Diana Spencer is Lecturer in Classics, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.

• Introduction: Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination ; 1. Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void ; 2. 'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law ; 3. 'I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal ; 4. Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome ; 5. Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 ; 6. The gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope ; 7. Staging Rome: the renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis ; 8. Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview ; 9. Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature ; 10. The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films: 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity'

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