Bücher von Catharine (University of Bristol) Edwards

What did the city of Rome mean to ancient Romans? The writings of Roman writers Cicero, Virgil, Juvenal and others, have played a vital part in determining responses to the city both in their own time and in later centuries. This book explores a wide range of descriptions of the city from later periods as well as from antiquity.

This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans were, but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality.