Roman Cultural Revolution

Zusammenfassung This book is a multi-disciplinary attempt to understand the Roman Revolution as a cultural phenomenon. Contributors draw upon the latest approaches in literary and cultural studies to integrate literature! art! and history into a new account of Roman culture during the transition from Republic to Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Transformation of Cultural Systems: 1. Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 2. The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome Thomas Habinek; 3. Recitatio and the reorganization of the space of public discourse Florence Dupont; Part II. Texts and Contexts: 4. The boundaries of knowledge in Virgil's Georgics Alessandro Schiesaro; 5. Ut arte emendaturus fortunam, Horace, Nasidienus and the art of satire Ellen Oliensis; 6. Horace and the material culture of Augustan Rome: a revisionary reading Eleanor Winsor Leach; 7. Images of the city: Propertius' new-old Rome Elaine Fantham; 8. Livy's revolution: civic identity and the creation of the Res publica Andrew Feldherr; 9. Concealing/revealing: gender and the play of meaning in the monuments of Augustan Rome Barbara Kellum; 10. Questions of authority: the invention of tradition in Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 Philip Hardie; 11. A preface to the history of declamation: whose speech? whose history? Martin Bloomer.

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• Authors: Thomas N. Schiesaro Habinek, Thomas Schiesaro Habinek
• Assisted by: Thomas Habinek (Editor), Thomas N. Habinek (Editor), Alessandro Schiesaro (Editor), Schiesaro Alessandro (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2004
• EAN: 9780521616195
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61619-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval