Models from the Past in Roman Culture 1st edition by Matthew Roller 1107162599 9781107162594

Models from the Past in Roman Culture 1st edition by Matthew B. Roller – Ebook PDF Instant Download/DeliveryISBN:  1107162599, 9781107162594  

Full download Models from the Past in Roman Culture 1st edition after payment.

Product details:

ISBN-10 :  1107162599  

ISBN-13 :  9781107162594

Author:  Matthew B. Roller 

Historical examples played a key role in ancient Roman culture, and Matthew B. 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 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. Roller also considers the boundaries of, and ancient alternatives to, exemplary modes of argumentation, morality, and historical thinking. The book will engage anyone interested in how societies, from ancient Rome to today, invoke past performers and their deeds to address contemporary concerns and interests.

 

Models from the Past in Roman Culture 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Horatius Cocles

Chapter 2 – Cloelia

Chapter 3 – Appius Claudius Caecus

Chapter 4 – Gaius Duilius

Chapter 5 – Fabius Cunctator

Chapter 6 – Cornelia

Chapter 7 – Cicero’s House and “Aspiring to Kingship”

Chapter 8 – Conclusion

 

People also search for Models from the Past in Roman Culture 1st:

classical models renaissance

roman models

examples of roman culture
 
famous models of the past
 
roman model of government

Tags: Models, the Past, Roman Culture, Matthew Roller, ancient Roman