Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting

by Steven Rutledge

In antiquity, Rome represented one of the world's great cultural capitals. The city constituted a collective repository for various commemoratives, cultural artefacts, and curiosities, not to mention plunder taken in war, and over its history became what we might call a "museum city." Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects and memorabilia both from Rome and its empire came to reflect a specific Roman identity and, in some instances,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199573239
• ISBN13: 9780199573233
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"