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10 paź 2008 · About this book. Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present. Show all.
Series Editor: Maria Wyke, University College London. The ancient world did not end with the sack of Rome in the fifth century ad. Its literature, politics, and culture have been adopted, contested, used and abused, from the middle ages to the present day, by both individuals and states. The Classical Receptions Series presents new ...
Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging is a timely and engaging exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. I argue for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also trace the tensions created by these myths in attempts to answer the question, “Who ...
22 gru 2022 · Summary. Questions of the American founding are organized around debates about its republican, liberal, or religious heritage. I locate the founding not in a historical moment but in a mythology reenacted in the cultural imagination.
Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns.
27 sie 2024 · Stanford University classics scholar Adrienne Mayor says a comparison between Mithradates, a deadly enemy of the Roman Empire, and Osama bin Laden, who set his sights on the American Empire, is a tempting one. The best books on Enemies of Ancient Rome, recommended by Adrienne Mayor.
14 paź 2009 · The Roman Empire, founded in 27 B.C., was a vast and powerful domain that gave rise to the culture, laws, technologies and institutions that continue to define Western civilization.
