A City of Marble : The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome /

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This book argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e. -- 14 c. e...

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Main Author: Lamp, Kathleen S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Latin literature.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Litterature latine > Histoire et critique.
Rhetorique ancienne.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A city of brick
  • Augustus's rhetorical situation
  • Seeing rhetorical theory
  • The Augustan political myth
  • Let us now praise great men
  • Coins, material rhetoric, and circulation
  • The Augustan political myth in vernacular art
  • (Freed)men and monkeys
  • Conclusion : a new narrative.

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