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Models from the Past in Roman Culture - A World of Exempla (Paperback)
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Models from the Past in Roman Culture - A World of Exempla (Paperback)
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Historical examples played a key role in ancient Roman culture, and
Matthew B. Roller's book presents a coherent model for
understanding the rhetorical, moral, and historiographical
operations of Roman exemplarity. It examines the process of
observing, evaluating, and commemorating noteworthy actors, or
deeds, and then holding those performances up as norms by which to
judge subsequent actors or as patterns for them to imitate. The
model is fleshed out via detailed case studies of individual
exemplary performers, the monuments that commemorate them, and the
later contexts - the political arguments and social debates - in
which these figures are invoked to support particular positions or
agendas. Roller also considers the boundaries of, and ancient
alternatives to, exemplary modes of argumentation, morality, and
historical thinking. The book will engage anyone interested in how
societies, from ancient Rome to today, invoke past performers and
their deeds to address contemporary concerns and interests.
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