Ancient Rome as a Museum Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting [#221594]

Steven Rutledge, "Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting "
English | ISBN: 0199573239 | 2012 | 424 pages | PDF | 10 MB
In antiquity, Rome represented one of the world's great cultural capitals. The city constituted a collective repository for various commemoratives, cultural artefacts, and curiosities, not to mention plunder taken in war, and over its history became what we might call a "museum city." Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects and memorabilia both from Rome and its empire came to reflect a specific Roman identity and, in some instances, to even construct or challenge Roman perceptions of power and of the self. In this volume, Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values and identity are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.