Souvenirs and the experience of empire in ancient Rome /
This book offers the first in-depth investigation of souvenirs from the Roman Empire commemorating places, people and spectacles. Straddling spheres of religion, spectacle, leisure and politics, souvenirs offer a unique resource for exploring the experiences, interests, imaginations and aspirations...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | This book offers the first in-depth investigation of souvenirs from the Roman Empire commemorating places, people and spectacles. Straddling spheres of religion, spectacle, leisure and politics, souvenirs offer a unique resource for exploring the experiences, interests, imaginations and aspirations of people living in the Roman world beyond elite, metropolitan men. Popkin shows how souvenirs generated and shaped memory and knowledge and constructed imagined cultural affinities across the empire's heterogeneous population. At the same time, souvenirs strengthened local and regional identities and excluded certain groups from the social participation they afforded so many others. Adopting a fundamentally multidisciplinary approach, this book demonstrates how souvenirs, affordable, portable and widely accessible, were critical to shaping how Romans perceived and conceptualized their world and their relationships to the empire that shaped it. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 325 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316517567 131651756X 9781009045643 1009045644 |