Empire and Memory

The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19600482
AutoresAlain M Gowing (University of Washington, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Data de publicação2005-08-11
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoEmpire and Memory (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511610592
OpenAlexW4211021975
Open LibraryOL7765886M
ISBN9780511610592
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas165
Referências citadas98

The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural successor, the Principate or Empire. Empire and Memory explores how (and why) that memory manifested itself over the course of the early Principate. Making use of the close relationship between memoria and historia in Roman thought and drawing on modern studies of historical memory, this book offers case-studies of major imperial authors from the reign of Tiberius to that of Trajan (AD 14–117). The memory evident in literature is linked to that imprinted on Rome's urban landscape, with special attention paid to the Forum of Augustus and the Forum of Trajan, both which are particularly suggestive reminders of the transition from a time when the memory of the Republic was highly valued and celebrated to one when its grip had begun to loosen

Ancient history · Empire · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Principate · Reign · Roman Empire · Successor cardinal · The Republic · Classical Antiquity Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · 510-30 b.c · Ancient - Rome · Ancient and Classical · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · Criticism · European history: BCE to c 500 CE · Hellenic languages · History and criticism · Latin literature · Literary collections · Literary Criticism · Literature - Classics · Literature and history · Memory · Political aspects · republic · Rome