The Predatory Palace: Seneca’s Thyestes and the Architecture of Tyranny

In: Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity
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Daniel B. Unruh
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246–272
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Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity

Remains and Representations of the Ancient City

Series:  Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 375 and  Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, Volume: 375
Cover Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity
E-Book ISBN:
9789004283893
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2015
Front Matter
Introduction
In Defense of Arkadia: The City as a Fortress
The Mundus of Caere and Early Etruscan Urbanization
“Fighting Over a Shadow?”: Hellenistic Greek Cities and Greco-Roman Cities as Fora and Media for Multi-Level Social Signaling
Constructing an Oscan Cityscape: Pompeii and the Eítuns Inscriptions
Unraveling the Reality of a ‘City’ on the Deccan Plateau
Monumentalising the Ephemeral in Ancient Rome
Future City in the Heroic Past: Rome, Romans, and Roman Landscapes in Aeneid 6–8
Reading the Civic Landscape of Augustan Rome: Aeneid 1.421–429 and the Building Program of Augustus
The Predatory Palace: Seneca’s Thyestes and the Architecture of Tyranny
Imperial Roman Cities as Places of Memory in Augustine’s Confessions
Sacred Exchange: The Religious Institutions of Emporia in the Mediterranean World of the Later Iron Age
Greek Poleis in the Near East and Their Parthian Overlords
Civic Identity in Roman Ostia: Some Evidence from Dedications (Inaugurations)
Chariot Racing in Hispania Tarraconensis: Urban Romanization and Provincial Identity
The Seat of Kingship: (Re)Constructing the City in Isaiah 24–27
Remembering Pre-Israelite Jerusalem in Late Persian Yehud: Mnemonic Preferences, Memories and Social Imagination
Memory and the Greek City in Strabo’s Geography
The Ekklēsia of Early Christ-Followers in Asia Minor as the Eschatological New Jerusalem: Counter-Imperial Rhetoric?
From Kinship to State: The Family and the Ancient City in Nineteenth-Century Ethnology
Index

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