Vandalising Epic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11754645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martha Malamud (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-173 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ramus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-671X • E-ISSN: 2202-932X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0048671x00002496 |
| OpenAlex | W2796919638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
William Levitan concluded a study of the fourth century poet Optatian with the sentence, ‘The marble bones of Rome itself were chopped for a thousand years to raise the buildings of Europe.’ The theatres, baths and other edifices constructed by the Romans never wholly perished; they served the local populations for centuries as quarries for building materials. The writers of late antiquity treated the Latin literary tradition the same way that later inhabitants treated the ruins of Roman buildings, as a source for appropriate building blocks. The dismemberment of magnificent structures, whether architectural or literary is, to be sure, a kind of vandalism, but perhaps in the post-modern, resource-hungry world of the mid-1990's we can bring ourselves to think of it as something more positive, as an attempt to salvage and recycle valuable material
Ancient history · Art · Dismemberment · EPIC · Literature · Political science · Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |