Lo spazio della città nelle declamazioni in lingua latina

Abstract

Latin declamations offer an extraordinary perspective to measure some spatial categories, such as, for example, the one concerning the 'scenography' that is the background on which the protagonists of the declamations move. In this sense emerges the fundamental role of the city as a place that, even in the indefiniteness that distinguishes these texts, not only animates the actions of the protagonists but frequently motivates their behavior.