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The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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This book investigates the 'decline and fall' of Rome as perceived
and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought
from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.
It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media
have conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn,
deliberately or unconsciously, to their contemporary world.
Jonathan Theodore argues that the decline and fall of Rome is no
straightforward historical fact, but a 'myth' in terms coined by
Claude Levi-Strauss, meaning not a 'falsehood' but a complex social
and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of
European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived
instability and pitfalls of the civilization to which they
belonged. The material gathered in this book illustrates the value
of this idea as a spatiotemporal concept, rather than a historical
event - a narrative with its own unique moral purpose.
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