CIECS   20730
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SOBRE CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Religion and Roman urban development.
Autor/es:
CECILIA AMES
Lugar:
Erfurt
Reunión:
Workshop; Guest Lecture KFG Religion and Urbanity; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Max Weber Kolleg.Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
Resumen:
Virgil? s Aeneid, a text written in Augustan times when the city of Rome is at the height of its urban development and is regarded by the whole world as the city par excellence, is a text that insists, in a profound way, on the changes that the space of the City has experienced throughout its historical development. In the poem, different places of Rome appear modified by many agents who had appropriated them, transforming and crafting them through a diversity of religious and civic practices. In a subtle way, Virgil takes the topic of urban development and brings the city´s humble origins and the emblematic places of Rome to the memory of his contemporaries, with a strong accent on different kinds of religious expressions. In this way, the focus on the subject of Religion and Urbanism allows us to read the Aeneid from another perspective that we consider still little explored. This supposes to look at the epic with the city of Rome and its urban development as the main characters.