Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction-Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination -- 1. Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void -- 2. 'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law -- 3. 'I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal -- 4. Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome -- 5. Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 -- 6. The Gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope -- 7. Staging Rome: the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis -- 8. Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview -- 9. Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature -- 10. The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films: 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' -- Bibliography -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Passages Discussed -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V.