Legendary Rome"Legendary Rome" is the first book to offer a comparative treatment of the reinvention of Rome's origins in the poetry of Vergil, Tibullus and Propertius. It also examines the impact that the changing topography of Rome, as orchestrated by the emperor Augustus, had on those poets' renditions of Rome's legendary past. When the poets explore the significance of Augustus' reconstruction of the Palatine and Capitoline hills, they create new meaning and memories for the story of Rome's legendary foundations. As the tradition of Rome's mythic and legendary origins evolves through each poetic revision, the past transforms and is reinvented anew.The exploration of what constitutes a civilised landscape for each poet leads to significant conclusions about the dynamic and evolving nature of shared public memories. Written when Rome was in the process of defining a new, post-war identity, the poems studied here capture the growing tension between community and individual development, the restoration of peace versus expansion through military means, and stability and change within the city. |
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... memory , which exists solely as the record of an event or events as recalled by an individual or group . The Romans did not have a specific means by which they conceived of memoria and historia as two separate ways of talking about the ...
... memories , and defines how the memories can belong to individuals and a group simultane- ously . A group of people who share a memory in common decide over a course of a lifetime how and when to give the memory significance , and this ...
... memory in multiple places . When memories are shared by two places , according to Alcock , it can suggest evidence of a commu- nity's desire to reconcile conflicting values or extend to a larger group a sense of a shared cultural ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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