Livy's Written RomeUniversity of Michigan Press, 1997 - 205 pagine The modern age is not the only one in which Romans and visitors to Rome have been fascinated with the city's striking juxtapositions of past and present. Rome's wealth of history also captured the imagination of the ancients. Livy's Written Rome, by Mary Jaeger, shows how one writer explored the relationship between events in Roman history, the landscape in which they occurred, and the monuments that commemorated them. While Augustus reconstructed the physical city to reflect the ideology of the Empire, the historian Livy created a written Rome and taught his readers to look beyond the city's dramatically altered landscape. In so doing, they gained insight into the lessons of the lost Republic. Drawing upon modern discourse on the connection between private mental spaces and public civic spaces, this first in-depth study of Livy's use of the urban landscape offers discerning views on his interpretation of ancient theories of historiography. Livy's Written Rome discusses the Roman idea of the monument as a place where memory and space intersect and includes fresh readings of several historical episodes, including the battle over the Sabine Women, the sedition of Marcus Manlius, and the trials of the Scipios. Scholars have long criticized Livy as a historian because his work is not in accord with modern historiographical standards. Yet even his critics agree that Livy is a masterful literary artist, and recent work on Livy has argued for the complexity and originality of his thought. Across the humanities, recent scholarship has focused on the role of memory in civic consciousness and identity. This book explores the ways in which Livy's texts question traditional assumptions about the preservation and use of the past. In doing so, it identifies a new and important facet of Livy's representation of urban Rome. Livy's Written Rome will be of interest to classicists and historians, students of ancient historiography and classical rhetoric, as well as general readers interested in memory, monuments, and historical narrative. Mary Jaeger is Professor of Classics, University of Oregon. |
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... point of view and per- spective connote distance and movement through space better than gaze does . Point of view throws weight on the position a person takes to adopt their stance , and it implies the movement involved in taking up ...
... point of view and per- spective connote distance and movement through space better than gaze does . Point of view throws weight on the position a person takes to adopt their stance , and it implies the movement involved in taking up ...
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... point of view . This set of viewers , part of an audience that up to this point appears to have been created by the narrative , actually has an independent existence and acts to influence the course of events . Livy has split the ...
... point of view . This set of viewers , part of an audience that up to this point appears to have been created by the narrative , actually has an independent existence and acts to influence the course of events . Livy has split the ...
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... perspective on the Capitoline , which , since Manlius ' defense ( 6.15.11 ) , has been pre- sented only from his point of view or that of his supporters . Moreover , the reader is reminded that , at the crucial moment of Manlius ...
... perspective on the Capitoline , which , since Manlius ' defense ( 6.15.11 ) , has been pre- sented only from his point of view or that of his supporters . Moreover , the reader is reminded that , at the crucial moment of Manlius ...
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The History as a Monument | 15 |
The Battle in the Forum | 30 |
The Rise and Fall of Marcus | 57 |
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