Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on texts, translations and abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Empire without end; condere in Virgil's Aeneid; Excavating foundation myths: from Aeneid 1 to Tacitus Annals 16; Digging the dirt: Suetonius' Nero; Epilogue; Roman Ondák: the underground art scene; Chapter 2 All four corners of the world; Lyric's realm: the angulus; The violence of the edge: beyond lyric; Epilogue; Anish Kapoor's dirty corners; Chapter 3 Roman philosophy and the house of being.

Codes of confinement: from corners to circlesThe refuge-cum-den: tight spots; Shaking out metaphor: (se) excutere; Epilogue; Rachel Whiteread's casts: sculpture inside out; Chapter 4 Blood, sweat and fears in the Roman baths; Singing in the bath: Seneca Epistles 56; The writing on the stall: Scipio's shower; Martial 6.42 and Statius Silvae 1.5: inside Etruscus' baths; Vitruvius' baths: the height of sophistication; Epilogue; Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Bathroom; Chapter 5 Imperial enclosure, epic spectacle; Launching the Aeneid: Georgics 1-4; Lucan's prisons: empire's small worlds.

Watch the mountain shrink: Statius' AchilleidEpilogue; David Blaine's magic: the hero enclosed; Chapter 6 The homeless problem; Home from Rome; Tristia 2 and the illusion of security; Inside the burning bull: Tristia 3.11; Ibis: exploding enclosure, unmaking elegy; Epilogue; Adrian Paci: Home to Go; Bibliography; Index locorum; Subject index.