“The Cloud that (…) Sat on the Mountaintops”
A Narratological Analysis of Space in Livy’s Account of Quintus Fabius Maximus’ Dictatorship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17608992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia Fabrizi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 138 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 673-706 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Journal of Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9475 • E-ISSN: 1086-3168 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ajp.2017.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2781123754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article investigates the narrative construction of space in Livy’s account of Quintus Fabius Maximus’ military campaigns in Southern Italy in 217 b.c.e. (Livy 22.12–18; 23–30). Through close reading of the narrative, and comparison with the parallel account in Book 3 of Polybius, it shows that the settings of the narrated events, far from merely reproducing actual historical sites, are constructed so as to embody some of the main themes of Livy’s account. In particular, one can observe an ongoing semanticisation of the spatial opposition “high vs. low,” which is functional to Livy’s meditation upon the moral implications of strategy
Art · Dictatorship · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Reading (process) · Space (punctuation) · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |