The Moving City

In its fashionable focus on society's experience of space [The Moving City] is a product of its time. It is an enjoyable read, successfully presenting a picture 'of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined'. * Classics For All Reviews * The range of papers and topics within this coherent volume is impressive and should interest a similarly wide range of researchers, as well as providing useful material for undergraduate classes on subjects as diverse as Augustan poetry, late Republican politics, the supply of Rome and early Christian Rome. * Journal of Roman Studies * A well-thought out, versatile and inspiring study on movement in the city . * Gymnasium (Bloomsbury translation) * Impressively show[s] the manifold possibilities and opportunities that lie in the connections between space and performance. * H-Soz-Kult (Bloomsbury Translation) * The monuments of ancient Rome, rooted in time and place, impress us with their calm stolidity. This rich collection of essays successfully reminds us that they were the backdrop to a city in permanent motion - from the stately processions of ambassadors and empresses, to the regular ebb and flow of traffic on the Tiber, and to the chaos of a rampaging crowd. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins, University of Oxford, UK Particularly noteworthy are the contributions of A. Corbeill, C.H.Lange, M. Andrews and G. Lonstrup Dal Santo, each of which illuminates movements in the physical, mental and/or literary space of Rome. * Historische Zeitschrift (Bloomsbury Translation) *