Ancient Rome As a Museum - Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting

Zusatztext very stimulating study that sensitizes the reader to the importance of the language of objects. It is a trove for any classicist interested not only in the factual history of artefacts! but in the narrative behind the objects. Informationen zum Autor Steven H. Rutledge is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian (Routledge, 2001), and the author of numerous articles on Roman history and culture. Klappentext Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them. Zusammenfassung Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.

Summary

Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Rutledge, Steven H. Rutledge
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2012
• EAN: 9780199573233
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957323-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation; Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation; Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult; Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Roman style