The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome): Disgrace & Oblivion in Roman Political Culture - Brossura

Flower, Harriet I.

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ISBN 10: 0807871885 ISBN 13: 9780807871881

Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Riassunto

Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilation of portraits and public inscriptions. Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice--an instruction to forget--from archaic times into the second century A.D. Flower explores Roman memory sanctions against the background of Greek and Hellenistic cultural influence and in the context of the wider Mediterranean world. Combining literary texts, inscriptions, coins, and material evidence, this richly illustrated study contributes to a deeper understanding of Roman political culture.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Harriet I. Flower is professor of classics at Princeton University. She is author of Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of the Roman practice of destroying the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community from archaic times into the second century A.D.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: The University of North Carolina Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0807871885
• ISBN 13: 9780807871881
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 424