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Pollius Felix and the Porticus Liviae (Statius' Silvae 2.2.31).

This article considers the tensions between private dwelling and public city space in architecture and rhetoric in imperial Rome, particularly as they appear in Statius' Silvae 2.2, an ecphrastic poem on a seaside villa. When Statius describes his patron's porticus as "the size of a city" (urbis opu...

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Published in:Symbolae Osloenses Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 159 - 192
Main Author: Liney, Nicolas
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2021
Subjects:
Space (Architecture)
Collective memory
Public spaces
Monuments
Dictators
Domestic architecture
Parody
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