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The architecture of the Roman triumph : monuments, memory, and identity / Maggie L. Popkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Popkin, Maggie L., 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and society--Rome.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture, Roman.
- Monuments--Rome.
- Monuments.
- Triumph.
- Processions--Rome.
- Processions.
- Group identity--Rome.
- Group identity.
- Collective memory--Rome.
- Collective memory.
- Rome--Military antiquities.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The triumph, memory, and 'being Roman' in the city of Rome; 1. The triumphal route; 2. Building memories: the era of the Punic Wars (264-146 BC); 3. Spectacle and memory: the reign of Trajan, Optimus Princeps (AD 98-117); 4. Monuments and memory distortion: the reign of Septimius Severus (AD 193-211); Conclusion; Appendix. Victory monuments built along the triumphal route during the Punic Wars: topography, dating, and history.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-57752-X
- 1-316-57854-2
- 1-316-57871-2
- 1-316-57888-7
- 1-316-57905-0
- 1-316-57973-5
- 1-316-21728-0
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