A city of marble : the rhetoric of Augustan Rome / Kathleen S. Lamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamp, Kathleen S.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication.

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.

Augustus.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : Published by the University of South Carolina Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e.-14 c. e.).Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to scholars of rhetoric, and moves on to those most obviously using rhetorical techniques in visual form. She then arrives at those objects least recognizable as rhetorical artifacts, but perhaps most si

Contents:

A city of brick

Augustus's rhetorical situation

Seeing rhetorical theory

The Augustan political myth

Let us now praise great men

Coins, material rhetoric, and circulation

The Augustan political myth in vernacular art

(Freed)men and monkeys

Conclusion: a new narrative.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611173369

1611173361

OCLC:

857966107