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Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City (Hardcover, New)
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Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City (Hardcover, New)
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Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic
communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of
crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their
ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also
finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern
citizens. An initial discussion of the fall of Ceausescu in 1989
prompts theoretical considerations about the inseparability of
authority and its manifestation; and scrutiny of Julius Caesar's
gestures towards self-definition introduces the complexity of
ancient political relations. The simultaneous presence of both
popular affection for wondrous and kingly individuals, and also
egalitarian suspicion of it, is detected in classical Athens, where
an Alcibiades needed to manoeuvre craftily to achieve obvious and
ritual pre-eminence in associating himself with age-old and Homeric
models of distinction. Accordingly, the arrival of Hellenistic
kingliness, such as that of Demetrios Poliorcetes, upon the
political stage was neither wholly innovative nor unattractive. Yet
such kings quite clearly articulated a new and grandiose majesty,
as can be seen in parades in Egypt and Syria. With the growth of
Roman imperialism, these stylings of personal power needed to be
adapted to new realities and models, just as Romans of the later
Republic increasingly found much to admire and emulate in others'
spectacles. Thus the book comes back to the end of the Republic and
to Cicero's struggles to maintain traditional, republican dignities
in civic ceremony while a new Roman kingliness, thoroughly
attentive to spectacular politics, was dawning.
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