Kathleen S. Lamp 
A City of Marble [EPUB ebook] 
The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

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In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp 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.).

Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to scholars of rhetoric, and moves on to those most obviously using rhetorical techniques in visual form. She then arrives at those objects least recognizable as rhetorical artifacts, but perhaps most significant to the daily lives of the Roman people—coins, altars, wall painting. This progression also captures the development of the Augustan political myth that Augustus was destined to rule and lead Rome to greatness as a descendant of the hero Aeneas.

A City of Marble examines the establishment of this myth in state rhetoric, traces its circulation, and finally samples its popular receptions and adaptations. In doing so, Lamp inserts a long-excluded though significant audience—the common people of Rome—into contemporary understandings of rhetorical history and considers Augustan culture as significant in shaping civic identity, encouraging civic participation, and promoting social advancement.

Lamp approaches the relationship between classical rhetoric and Augustan culture through a transdisciplinary methodology drawn from archaeology, art and architectural history, numismatics, classics, and rhetorical studies. By doing so, she grounds Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s claims that the Principate represented a renaissance of rhetoric rooted in culture and a return to an Isocratean philosophical model of rhetoric, thus offering a counterstatement to the ‘decline narrative’ that rhetorical practice withered in the early Roman Empire. Thus Lamp’s work provides a step toward filling the disciplinary gap between Cicero and the Second Sophistic.

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Kathleen S. Lamp is an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. Lamp holds a B.A. in classical archaeology and communication from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and a M.A and Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 216 ● ISBN 9781611173369 ● Mărime fișier 3.9 MB ● Editura University of South Carolina Press ● Oraș Columbia ● Țară US ● Publicat 2013 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 2793629 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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