The architecture of the Roman triumph: monuments, memory, and identity

This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped how Romans performed, experienced, and remember...

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Beteilige Person: Popkin, Maggie L. 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press 2016
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316217283
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316217283
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316217283
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316217283
Zusammenfassung:This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped how Romans performed, experienced, and remembered triumphs and, consequently, how Romans conceived of an urban identity for their city. Monuments highlighted Roman conquests of foreign peoples, enabled Romans to envision future triumphs, made triumphs more memorable through emotional arousal of spectators, and even generated distorted memories of triumphs that might never have occurred. This book illustrates the far-reaching impact of the architecture of the triumph on how Romans thought about this ritual and, ultimately, their own place within the Mediterranean world. In doing so, it offers a new model for historicizing the interrelations between monuments, individual and shared memory, and collective identities
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016)
Umfang:1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages)
ISBN:9781316217283
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316217283