Name: Narratives of the Roman Empire. How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals
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Author: Elena Muniz-Grijalvo;Juan Manuel Cortes Copete;Fernando Lozano
ISBN: 9783111706931

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Narratives of the Roman Empire. How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

De Gruyter

Author

Elena Muniz-Grijalvo;Juan Manuel Cortes Copete;Fernando Lozano

Collection

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Year

2025

Pages

385

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.00 x 15.50 cm

ISBN13

9783111706931

Narratives of the Roman Empire. How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals

Elena Muniz-Grijalvo;Juan Manuel Cortes Copete;Fernando Lozano (Author) · De Gruyter · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Narratives of the Roman Empire. How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals"

Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean. This process gathered steam in the imperial age, as the contributions of the conquered regions gradually assimilated into the empire. Words and rituals represented the empire not as the Roman domination of conquered nations, but as a community capable of integrating the provincials. This was not merely an ideological construct: the new community was indeed a result of the integration of different peoples and their political, cultural and religious traditions. This idea of empire was present at very different levels: documents directly emanating from the emperors and all kinds of literature. Rites also contributed to shaping imperial discourse, laying firm ideological foundations for the symbolic construction of the community and disseminating the imperial discourse among its members. Words and rituals contributed to creating new mindsets that progressively supplemented the old political and social mores and customs with a new ‘narrative of empire’, and vice versa: narratives contributed to shaping the very idea of empire.