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1 online resource (xxii, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-334) and index. |
| Summary |
Jacob A. Latham explores the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession through Rome's history. |
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"The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an image of Rome as the senate and the people with their gods - a deeply traditional symbol of the city which was transformed during the empire when an imperial image was built on top of the republican one. In late antiquity, the procession fashioned a multiplicity of Romes: imperial, traditional, and Christian. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the webs of symbolic meanings in the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Introduction. History in the subjunctive ; Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and imperialism ; Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis -- part 1. An ideal-type between the republic and memories of the republic. Pompa hominum: Gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure ; Pompa deorum: Performing theology, performing the gods ; Iter pompae circensis: Memory, resonance, and the image of the city -- part 2. The Pompa Circensis from Julius Caesar to Late Antiquity. "Honors greater than human": Imperial cult in the pompa circensis ; Behind "the veil of power": Ritual failure, ordinary humans, and ludic processions during the high empire ; The pompa circensis in late antiquity: Imperialization, Christianization, restoration -- Conclusion. |
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Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I History in the subjunctive; II Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and imperialism; III Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis; Part I An ideal-type between the republic and memories of the republic; One Pompa hominum: Gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure; I "Rituals in ink": Dionysius of Halicarnassus; II Gravity, levity, and ritual resonance in the pompa hominum; III Wonder: spectacle and the pompa circensis. |
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IV Ritual failure in the pompa hominumTwo Pompa deorum: Performing theology, performing the gods; I Religious education and performed theology; II Performing the gods; III Regulations and ritual failure in the pompa deorum; Three Iter pompae circensis: Memory, resonance, and the image of the city; I An itinerary of collective memory; II Resonance and repetition; III Imaging Rome on the ground and in the imagination; IV An ideal-type between the republic and memories of the republic; Part II The pompa circensis from Julius Caesar to late antiquity. |
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Four "Honors greater than human": Imperial cult in the pompa circensisI Imperial gods in the pompa circensis: from Caesar to the Severans; II An imperial palimpsest: the itinerary from Augustus to Septimius Severus; Five Behind "the veil of power": Ritual failure, ordinary humans, and ludic processions during the high empire; I Imperial ritual failure; II "Ordinary" humans in the pompa circensis; III The pompa circensis outside Rome and the pompa (amphi- )theatralis; IV "And the horses, fleet as the wind, will contend for the first palm." |
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Six The pompa circensis in late antiquity: Imperialization, Christianization, restorationI Pompa Diaboli: Christian rhetoric and the pompa circensis; II Voluptates: imperial law and the "secularization" of the ludi; III Emperors and victory: the pompa circensis in late antiquity; IV The sub-imperial pompa circensis in late antiquity; V Restoring the "republic": the late-antique itinerary; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Politics and culture -- Rome.
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Processions -- Rome.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Politics and culture |
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Processions |
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Rome (Empire) |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Latham, Jacob A., 1974- Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107130715 (DLC) 2016015481 (OCoLC)947104946 |
| ISBN |
9781316693322 (electronic bk.) |
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1316693325 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316693773 (electronic bk.) |
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1316693775 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316442616 (electronic bk.) |
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1316442616 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107130715 (hardback) |
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1107130719 (hardback) |
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