Models from the Past in Roman Culture

A World of Exempla

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19903597
AutoresMatthew B Roller (0000-0002-8784-4112, Johns Hopkins University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Fecha de publicación2018-03-22
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaModels from the Past in Roman Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316677353
OpenAlexW2793372794
Open LibraryOL34723923M
ISBN9781316677353
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas51
Referencias citadas118

Historical examples played a key role in ancient Roman culture, and Matthew B. Roller's book presents a coherent model for understanding the rhetorical, moral, and historiographical operations of Roman exemplarity. It examines the process of observing, evaluating, and commemorating noteworthy actors, or deeds, and then holding those performances up as norms by which to judge subsequent actors or as patterns for them to imitate. The model is fleshed out via detailed case studies of individual exemplary performers, the monuments that commemorate them, and the later contexts - the political arguments and social debates - in which these figures are invoked to support particular positions or agendas. Roller also considers the boundaries of, and ancient alternatives to, exemplary modes of argumentation, morality, and historical thinking. The book will engage anyone interested in how societies, from ancient Rome to today, invoke past performers and their deeds to address contemporary concerns and interests

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Argumentation theory · Art · Epistemology · Historiography · Key (lock) · Literature · Morality · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · biography · Memory · Role models · Rome · Social life and customs · Sources