Rome and Her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine A. Geffcken

This collection of essays on classical Rome and its physical and literary legacy pays tribute to the career of professor Katherine Allston Geffcken. Its contributors represent two successive academic generations as well as a variety of topics and analytical approaches. Many essays offer new readings of major Latin literary texts. Others illuminate the artistic, architectural, and archaeological achievements of the study of classical Rome. Specific topics include miniature votive altars in the collection of the American Academy in Rome, Vitruvius on the theater in Republican Rome, Roman drama, and venues for Greek Athletics in Rome. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)