Empire and Memory - The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture

Informationen zum Autor Alain Gowing is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Triumviral Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio (Ann Arbor, 1992) and is on the editorial board of both the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and Classical Antiquity. Klappentext How the memory of the Roman Republic manifest itself after the Republic's demise. Zusammenfassung This book explores how the memory of the Roman Republic manifested itself over the course of the early Empire (AD 14–117). Case-studies are presented of major imperial authors and key monuments in order to trace the relationship between memory and history in Roman thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Historia/memoria; 2. Res publica tiberiana; 3: 'Caesar, now be still'; 4. Rome's new past; 5. Remembering Rome.

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• Authors: Alain M. Gowing, Alain M. (University of Washington) Gowing
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2005
• EAN: 9780521544801
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54480-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts; Roman Literature and Its Conte; Roman Literature and Its Conte
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History