La logica del confine

This book examines the way Romans thought about their boundaries. In an attempt to keep their boundaries secure and inviolable, the Romans sacralized and even deified them. In the stories Romans told about their boundaries, themes can be identified that connect some of the fundamental ideas of Roman culture: relationships with the gods, the construction of space, the performative value of images, the origin of the law, the rules of power -- complex ideas that allow us to understand not only the significance of boundary myths, but also the reasons behind the "obsession" with boundaries that forms a unique characteristic of Roman culture.