Models from the past in Roman culture : a world of exempla / Matthew B. Roller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roller, Matthew B., 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

History.

Rome--Sources--Biography.

Rome.

Role models--Rome--History--Sources.

Role models.

Rome--Social life and customs--History--Sources.

Memory--Social aspects--Rome.

Memory.

History--Sources.

Manners and customs--Sources.

Memory--Social aspects.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 321 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Models from the Past in Roman Culture Historical examples played a key role in ancient Roman culture, and Matthew Roller's book presents a coherent model for understanding the rhetorical, moral, and historiographical operations of Roman exemplarity. It examines the process of observing, evaluating, and commemorating noteworthy actors or deeds, and then holding those performances up as a norms by which to judge subsequent actors or as patterns for them to imitate. The model is fleshed out via detailed case studies of individual exemplary performers, the monuments that commemorate them, and the later contexts - the political arguments and social debates - in which these figures are invoked to support particular positions or agendas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the work of examples

Horatius Cocles : commemorating and imitating a great deed

Cloelia : timelessness and gender

Appius Claudius Caecus : positive and negative exemplarity

Gaius Duilius : exemplarity and innovation

Fabius Cunctator : competing judgments and moral change

Cornelia : an exemplary matrona among the Gracchi

Cicero's house and "aspiring to kingship"

Conclusion : exemplarity and stoicism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781107162594

1107162599

OCLC:

1031423321