If the grandeur that was Rome has long since vanished, the impact
of the Eternal City can still be felt in virtually every corner of
Western culture. Students of speech and rhetoric to this day study
the works of Cicero for guidance. We find Roman Law setting the
model for legal systems from the twelfth century to the present.
And Latin itself, far from being a "dead language," lives on not
only in the Romance languages, but also in English vocabulary and
grammar. Rhetoric, language, law--these are just a small part of
the great Roman influence that has lasted throughout the
centuries.
The Legacy of Rome has long been considered the standard
introduction to the achievements of the Roman world. Now in a
completely new edition, this classic work brings together the
latest scholarship in the field from some of the world's leading
classical scholars. Unlike the previous version, which focused on
such narrow topics as commerce and administration, the new edition
broadens the spectrum of influence, showing the impact, for
example, of Roman literature, art, politics, law, and language on
western civilization. Jasper Griffin, for instance, looks to the
works of Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, and Wordsworth, among others,
to trace the lasting influence of the great Roman poet Virgil on
the development of poetic forms such as the pastoral, epitomized by
Virgil's Eclogues, and the epic poem, exemplified by the Aeneid.
A.T. Grafton shows how Renaissance intellectuals such as
Machiavelli and Guicciardini looked to Rome's past for political
enlightenment, and found models of military strategy in the works
of Tacitus and Livy. Editor Richard Jenkyns dispels the
misconception of the Romans as purely imitative of the Greeks; he
points out such uniquely Roman concepts as jurisprudence and
citizenship, and architecture based on the round arch and the
vault, as evidence of Roman innovativeness. Other
contributors--George A. Kennedy, Robert Feenstra, and Nicholas
Purcell--discuss the importance of the study of Roman rhetoric in
preparing speakers for public life, the lasting influence of the
Justinian code on Western legal development, and the impact on
future civilizations of the romanticized notion of an imperial Rome
and its magical ruins.
Ranging from the pastoral tradition, to the development of the
comedy, to the lasting influence of the Latin language, The Legacy
of Rome provides a much-needed new appraisal of the richness of the
great civilization which gave rise to a large part of Western
heritage.
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