Walkers in the Ruined City
Anthony Grafton: History in Ruins, 6 May 2021
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture
by Susan Stewart.
Chicago, 378 pp., £23, June,978 0 226 79220 0 Show More
by Susan Stewart.
Chicago, 378 pp., £23, June,
The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps
by Jessica Maier.
Chicago, 199 pp., £25, October 2020,978 0 226 59145 2 Show More
by Jessica Maier.
Chicago, 199 pp., £25, October 2020,
“... all: there was no single dominant way of observing ancient ruins and portraying what remained. Jessica Maier’s The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps provides a rich complementary account. In Civilisation and Its Discontents, Freud, antiquarian of the mind and connoisseur of archaeology, argued that it would be impossible to trace the history ... ”
