Models from the past in Roman culture : a world of exempla /
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, evaluati...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-312) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781107162594 1107162599 |