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      While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination

      Virginia M. Closs

      Explores the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of…

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      Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination

      This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending to the material and historical realities of such events, as well as to the imaginary and…

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