Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination

Urban Disasters and the Roman ImaginationThis book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events, but also to the imaginary and literary possibilities offered by urban disaster as a figure of thought. Existential threats to the ancient city took many forms, including military invasions, natural disasters, public health crises, and gradual systemic collapses brought on by political or

Power and politeness are important phenomena in face-to-face interaction

Das Spektrum der Bildwirkungen reicht dabei von Emotionsevokation

Despite the differences between periods

including how to navigate homophobia

Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate and complex interconnections

and for all those who wonder about how we know what we seem to know

shaping how people live in Nairobi

how do exploitation

Between these poles

mediale Inhalte zu gestalten und auf sie Einfluss zu nehmen

Berthold Petzinna

and in the 1950s