The Art of Forgetting

Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture

Harriet I. Flower (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2011 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7188-1 (ISBN)

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Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilation of portraits and public inscriptions. Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice--an instruction to forget--from archaic times into the second century A.D. Flower explores Roman memory sanctions against the background of Greek and Hellenistic cultural influence and in the context of the wider Mediterranean world. Combining literary texts, inscriptions, coins, and material evidence, this richly illustrated study contributes to a deeper understanding of Roman political culture.

Harriet I. Flower is professor of classics at Princeton University. She is author of Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic.

Reihe/Serie	Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8078-7188-5 / 0807871885
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-7188-1 / 9780807871881
Zustand	Neuware