The Roman Cultural Revolution [Hardcover]

Multi-disciplinary exploration of the Roman Revolution as a cultural phenomenon.This book is a multi-disciplinary attempt to understand the Roman Revolution as a cultural phenomenon. Contributors draw upon the latest approaches in literary and cultural studies to integrate literature, art and history into a new account of Roman culture during the transition from Republic to Empire. In Part I the changes in cultural systems are discussed under the topics of authority, gender and sexuality, status and space in the city of Rome, and in Part II texts and artifacts are shown to refract social, political and economic changes.This book is a multi-disciplinary attempt to understand the Roman Revolution as a cultural phenomenon. Contributors draw upon the latest approaches in literary and cultural studies to integrate literature, art and history into a new account of Roman culture during the transition from Republic to Empire. In Part I the changes in cultural systems are discussed under the topics of authority, gender and sexuality, status and space in the city of Rome, and in Part II texts and artifacts are shown to refract social, political and economic changes.This book is a multidisciplinary attempt to understand the Roman Revolution as a cultural phenomenon. Contributors draw on the latest approaches in literary and cultural studies to integrate literature, art and history into a new account of Roman culture during the transition from Republic to Empire. In Part I the changes in cultural systems are discussed under the topics of authority, gender and sexuality, status and space in the city of Rome, and in Part II texts and artifacts are shown to refract social, political and economic changes.Introduction; Part I. The Transformation of Cultural Systems: 1. Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 2. The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome Thomas Habinek; 3. Recitatio and the reorganization of the space of public discourse Flol.