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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      11 August 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511610592
      9780521836227
      9780521544801
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610592
      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.315kg, 194 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.232kg, 192 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
      Series:
      Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
    Series:
    Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    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.

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    'This is an intelligent and stimulating book. Original, concise and consistently well-written, it also has the theoretical depth which characterises the Roman Literature and its Contexts series.'

    Source: Sehepunkte

    'I thoroughly enjoyed reading and thoroughly recommend this book, with which [Gowing] provides a thoughtful and thought-provoking treatment of issues that concern classicists specifically and students of cultural memory in general.'

    Ben Tipping - Harvard University

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