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While Rome Burned
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

While Rome Burned

While Rome Burned attends to the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period. Urban fires presented a consistent problem for emperors from Augustus to Hadrian, especially given the expectation that the princeps be both a protector and provider for Rome’s population. The problem manifested itself differently for each leader, and each sought to address it in distinctive ways. This history can be traced most precisely in Roman literature, as authors addressed successive moments of political crisis through dialectical engagement with pr...

Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy

Combines material and literary cultural approaches to the study of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of the emperor Domitian

Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination

This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events, but also to the imaginary and literary possibilities offered by urban disaster as a figure of thought. Existential threats to the ancient city took many forms, including military invasions, natural disasters, public health crises, and gradual systemic collapses brought on by political or economic factors. In Roman cities, the memory of such events left lasting imprints on the city in psychological as well as in material terms. Individual chapters explore historical disasters and their commemoration, but others also consider of the eff...

Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 994
Congressional Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1620

Congressional Record

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Westonian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

The Westonian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 646
Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination

This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events, but also to the imaginary and literary possibilities offered by urban disaster as a figure of thought. Existential threats to the ancient city took many forms, including military invasions, natural disasters, public health crises, and gradual systemic collapses brought on by political or economic factors. In Roman cities, the memory of such events left lasting imprints on the city in psychological as well as in material terms. Individual chapters explore historical disasters and their commemoration, but others also consider of the eff...

Paris, a New Rome
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Paris, a New Rome

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial conquest or of civil war? By whom is it ruled? By the glorious conqueror who extended universal peace, the rule of law, and infrastructure – roads and aqueducts – or by the detested tyrant who imposed domination? Or worse, the corruptor of republican liberty and source of putrefying decadence? Rome always returns, but which Rome? France presents itself as a privileged locus for Rome’s return since the beginnings of its history. The perennial recourse to ancient Rome – as model or anti-model – binds together a cohesive tradition. The logic of this...