Rome, empire of plunder : the dynamics of cultural appropriation / edited by Matthew P. Loar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Carolyn MacDonald, University of New Brunswick, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loar, Matthew, 1984- editor, author.

MacDonald, Carolyn, 1985- editor, author.

Padilla Peralta, Dan-el, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--Roman influences.

Civilization.

Art thefts--Rome.

Art thefts.

Cultural property--Rome.

Cultural property.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Bringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an interdisciplinary understanding of Roman cultural appropriation - approached not as a set of distinct practices but as a hydra-headed phenomenon through which Rome made and remade itself, as a Republic and as an Empire, on Italian soil and abroad. The studies gathered in this volume range from the literary thefts of the first Latin comic poets to the grand-scale spoliation of Egyptian obelisks by a succession of emperors, and from Hispania to Pergamon to Qasr Ibrim. Applying a range of theoretical perspectives on cultural appropriation, contributors probe the violent interactions and chance contingencies that sent cargo of all sorts into circulation around the Roman Mediterranean, causing recurrent distortions in their individual and aggregate meanings. The result is an innovative and nuanced investigation of Roman cultural appropriation and imperial power.

Contents:

Part I. Interaction

The comedy of plunder: art and appropriation in Plautus' Menaechmi / Basil Dufallo

Citation, spoliation, and the appropriation of the past in Livy's AUC / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

A second First Punic War: respoliation of Republican naval monuments in the urban and poetic landscapes of Augustan Rome / Thomas Biggs

Buried treasure, hidden verses: (re)appropriating the Gauls of Pergamon in Flavian culture / Stefano Rebeggiani

Interactions: microhistory as cultural history / Matthew P. Loar

Part II. Distortion

Repurposing plunder in Vitruvius' De Architectura / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

Appropriating Egypt for the Ara Pacis Augustae / Jennifer Trimble

Monolithic appropriation? The Lateran Obelisk compared / Grant Parker

Distortion on parade: rethinking successful appropriation in Rome / Carolyn MacDonald

Part III. Circulation

The traffic in Shtick / Amy Richlin

Agents of appropriation: shipwrecks, cargoes, and entangled networks in the late Republic / Carrie Fulton

Import/export: empire and appropriation in the Gallus Papyrus from Qasr Ibrim / Micah Myers

Annexing a shared past: Roman appropriations of Hercules-Melqart in the conquest of Hispania / Megan Daniels

Circulation's thousand connectivities / Dan-el Padilla Peralta.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).

ISBN:

1-108-30941-0

1-108-30491-5

1-108-30741-8

1-108-30791-4

1-108-30891-0

1-108-31091-5

1-108-29001-9

OCLC:

1008888539