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This book examines the way Romans thought about their boundaries. In an attempt to keep their boundaries secure and inviolable, the Romans sacralized and even deified them. In the stories Romans told about their boundaries, themes can be identified that connect some of the funda…
Introduction: Souvenirs of the Roman Empire -- Souvenirs of cult statues -- Souvenirs of cities and sites -- Memory, knowledge, and cultural affinities -- Souvenirs of the circus and arena -- Souvenirs of the theater -- Imagining the Roman Empire -- Conclusion: Rethinking Rome. …
The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immoralit…
The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immoralit…
Time and the Eternal City / Tuomas Heikkilä -- Temporal Expressions in Canonisation Processes and Diari, and the Perception of Time in Late Medieval Rome / Saku Pihko -- The Jubilee of 1300 as an Instrument of Time Control and Papal Power / Jasmin Lukkari -- Time Set in Stone: t…
