Vitruvian Man Book Launch with John Oksanish

Join us as Wake Forest University professor John Oksanish launches his new book, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction. Vitruvian Man offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. Once reviled by scholars, Vitruvius emerges as an imperial expert par excellence when read alongside literary coevals through an intertextual lens. The book explores Vitruvius’ portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing “Vitruvian man” at the dawn of Augustus’ empire. This event is free and open to the public.