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Narratives of the Roman Empire
How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals
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Narratives of the Roman Empire
How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals
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Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean. This process gathered steam in the imperial age, as the contributions of the conquered regions gradually assimilated into the empire.
Words and rituals represented the empire not as the Roman domination of conquered nations, but as a community capable of integrating the provincials. This was not merely an ideological construct: the new community was indeed a result of the integration of different peoples and their political, cultural and religious traditions.
This idea of empire was present at very different levels: documents directly emanating from the emperors and all kinds of literature. Rites also contributed to shaping imperial discourse, laying firm ideological foundations for the symbolic construction of the community and disseminating the imperial discourse among its members.
Words and rituals contributed to creating new mindsets that progressively supplemented the old political and social mores and customs with a new 'narrative of empire', and vice versa: narratives contributed to shaping the very idea of empire.
Words and rituals represented the empire not as the Roman domination of conquered nations, but as a community capable of integrating the provincials. This was not merely an ideological construct: the new community was indeed a result of the integration of different peoples and their political, cultural and religious traditions.
This idea of empire was present at very different levels: documents directly emanating from the emperors and all kinds of literature. Rites also contributed to shaping imperial discourse, laying firm ideological foundations for the symbolic construction of the community and disseminating the imperial discourse among its members.
Words and rituals contributed to creating new mindsets that progressively supplemented the old political and social mores and customs with a new 'narrative of empire', and vice versa: narratives contributed to shaping the very idea of empire.
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Yes, you can access Narratives of the Roman Empire by Fernando Lozano,Juan Manuel Cortés Copete,Elena Muniz-Grijalvo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction: How to Make Rome? Words, Narratives and Rituals in the Shaping of the Roman Empire
- Part I: The Performative Power of Words: Imperial Power, Law and Political Ritual
- Part II: Empire-Building in the Literary Sources: Rhetoric, Sophist and Historiography
- Part III: The Performative Power of Rituals: Traditional Religion, Imperial Rituals and New Religious Discourses on the Empire
- Part IV: Empire-Building in a Provincial Setting: Local Discourses and Imperial Dynamisms
- List of Contributors
- Index of Literary Sources
- Index of Epigraphic Sources
- Index Personae
- Index of Places