Empire and Memory

Cambridge University Press
0521836220 - Empire and Memory - The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture - by Alain M. Gowing
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EMPIRE AND MEMORY

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 of 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.

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ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS

Empire and Memory

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ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS

Series editors:
Denis Feeney and Stephen Hinds

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This series promotes approaches to Roman literature which are open to dialogue with current work in other areas of the classics, and in the humanities at large. The pursuit of contacts with cognate fields such as social history, anthropology, history of thought, linguistics and literary theory is in the best traditions of classical scholarship: the study of Roman literature, no less than Greek, has much to gain from engaging with these other contexts and intellectual traditions. The series offers a forum in which readers of Latin texts can sharpen their readings by placing them in broader and better-defined contexts, and in which other classicists and humanists can explore the general or particular implications of their work for readers of Latin texts. The books all constitute original and innovative research and are envisaged as suggestive essays whose aim is to stimulate debate.

Other books in the series

Joseph Farrell, Latin language and Latin culture: from ancient to modern times

A. M. Keith, Engendering Rome: women in Latin epic

William Fitzgerald, Slavery and the Roman literary imagination

Stephen Hinds, Allusion and intertext: dynamics of appropriation in Roman poetry

Denis Feeney, Literature and religion at Rome: cultures, contexts, and beliefs

Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: textual approaches to the city

Duncan F. Kennedy, The arts of love: five studies in the discourse of Roman love elegy

Charles Martindale, Redeeming the text: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception

Philip Hardie, The epic successors of Virgil: a study in the dynamics of a tradition

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Empire and Memory

The Representation of the Roman Republic
in Imperial Culture

Alain M. Gowing

Professor of Classics

University of Washington

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