Name: Theorising Rome
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Theorising Rome

Edited By: Rhiannon Evans, Sonya Wurster

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What did ‘Rome’ mean in antiquity, and what has it meant since? This volume shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade by successive historical periods. These studies show how Rome and its texts are recast for each new audience through adaptation and critique.

Theorising Rome asks the questions: what did ‘Rome’—the physical location, the political entity, the literary construct—mean in antiquity? Equally, what has it meant in subsequent…

Theorising Rome asks the questions: what did ‘Rome’—the physical location, the political entity, the literary construct—mean in antiquity? Equally, what has it meant in subsequent centuries? This volume addresses these broad questions in a number of complementary ways, and each chapter shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade—and, in fact, re-theorised—by successive historical periods and literary genres to perform their cultural labour. The contributions here approach this question through the lens of Roman literary, historical and philosophical texts, as well as reception texts which create a new vision of Rome through adaptation, allusion and critique. Whether ancient or modern, these studies show how Rome and Roman texts are recast for each new audience.

Rhiannon Evans is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History and Head of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at La Trobe University, Australia. She works on Roman representations of ethnic and cultural identity, and has published a book on Roman utopias and dystopias. She is passionate about communicating the ancient past to a wider audience. She frequently appears on ABC radio, and is the co-host of the popular podcast ‘Emperors of Rome’.

Sonya Wurster holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at La Trobe University, Australia. Her work is broadly concerned with socio-cultural interactions between Greeks and Romans. Aside from exploring how the relationship between Greeks and Romans operated in the late republic, she has investigated the impact of Roman expansion on Strabo’s perception and presentation of geography in the Geographica, a work composed in the Augustan or early Tiberian period.

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