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'. -- Cora Beth Knowles * Classics For All Reviews * 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 Each paper is both individually valuable and makes a significant contribution to the whole, and the volume itself, cohesive and coherent (as well as all-but-flawlessly edited), will be of interest not only to scholars working in Latin literature and Roman archaeology and social history but also potentially to informed non-specialists eager for further Blue Guide-style tidbits when visiting Rome. -- Jennifer Ferriss-Hill * The Classical Journal Online * The volume is consistent and well organized: it is surely an important step forward in exploring a more integrated study of the cityscape in the light of the spatial and the performative turns, combining topography, architecture, epigraphy, philology, history and semiotics. It is easy to prophesy that the book will encourage many other scholars to pursue work along these lines, since it clearly shows how fruitful and productive this approach can be. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * This thoughtful, well-edited, and well-illustrated collection goes a long ways toward reanimating the actual lived experience of movement (176). Anyone interested in the subject of mobility, especially within the ancient Mediterranean world, will find much to think with in this volume, from its engagement with theoretical constructs to literary accounts and constructions to art historical and archaeological analyses. Like a walk around the City of Rome itself, The Moving City provides the reader with many enlightening and often unexpected new vistas on seemingly well-trodden ground. * Classical Journal *