Performance, memory, and processions in ancient Rome : the pompa circensis from the late Republic to Late Antiquity / Jacob A. Latham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latham, Jacob A., 1974- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--Rome.

Politics and culture.

Processions--Rome.

Processions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 345 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I History in the subjunctive; II Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and imperialism; III Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis; Part I An ideal-type between the republic and memories of the republic; One Pompa hominum: Gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure; I "Rituals in ink": Dionysius of Halicarnassus; II Gravity, levity, and ritual resonance in the pompa hominum; III Wonder: spectacle and the pompa circensis

IV Ritual failure in the pompa hominumTwo Pompa deorum: Performing theology, performing the gods; I Religious education and performed theology; II Performing the gods; III Regulations and ritual failure in the pompa deorum; Three Iter pompae circensis: Memory, resonance, and the image of the city; I An itinerary of collective memory; II Resonance and repetition; III Imaging Rome on the ground and in the imagination; IV An ideal-type between the republic and memories of the republic; Part II The pompa circensis from Julius Caesar to late antiquity

Four "Honors greater than human": Imperial cult in the pompa circensisI Imperial gods in the pompa circensis: from Caesar to the Severans; II An imperial palimpsest: the itinerary from Augustus to Septimius Severus; Five Behind "the veil of power": Ritual failure, ordinary humans, and ludic processions during the high empire; I Imperial ritual failure; II "Ordinary" humans in the pompa circensis; III The pompa circensis outside Rome and the pompa (amphi-)theatralis; IV "And the horses, fleet as the wind, will contend for the first palm"

Six The pompa circensis in late antiquity: Imperialization, Christianization, restorationI Pompa Diaboli: Christian rhetoric and the pompa circensis; II Voluptates: imperial law and the "secularization" of the ludi; III Emperors and victory: the pompa circensis in late antiquity; IV The sub-imperial pompa circensis in late antiquity; V Restoring the "republic": the late-antique itinerary; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Latham, Jacob A., 1974- Performance, memory, and processions in ancient Rome.

ISBN:

9781316693773

1316693775

9781316442616

1316442616

Publisher Number:

99980807039

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