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EMPIRE ANDMEMORY
The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on
several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural
successor, the Principate or Empire. Empire and Memory explores how (and
why) that memory manifested itself over the course of the early Principate.
Making use of the close relationship between memoria and historia in Roman
thought and drawing on modern studies of historical memory, this book
offers case-studies of major imperial authors from the reign of Tiberius to
that of Trajan (
AD
14–117). The memory evident in literature is linked to that
imprinted on Rome’s urban landscape, with special attention paid to the
Forum of Augustus and the Forum of Trajan, both of which are particularly
suggestive reminders of the transition from a time when the memory of the
Republic was highly valued and celebrated to one when its grip had begun to
loosen.
ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS
Empire and Memory
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