Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity : From Eternal City to Imagined Utopia, Hardco...

Description: Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity : From Eternal City to Imagined Utopia, Hardcover by Papadopoulos, Ioannis, ISBN 9463723153, ISBN-13 9789463723152, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Deploys the concept of Utopia as a framework for understanding intellectual developments in the late Roman period Interprets the late Roman period as a time of dynamism in which new ideas emerged (rather than as a time of mere decline and fall) Questions Roman identity as a construct that needed to be created and recreated, rather than as a fixed essence that could be taken for granted This book approaches the manifestation and evolution of the idea of Rome as an expression of Roman patriotism and as an (urban) archetype of utopia in late Roman thought in a period extending from AD 357 to 417. Within this period of about a human lifetime, the concepts of Rome and Romanitas were reshaped and used for various ideological causes. This monograph unfolds through a selection of sources that represent the patterns and diversity of this ideological process. The theme of Rome as a personified and anthropomorphic figure and as an epitomized notion applied on the urban landscape would become part of the identity of the Romans of Rome highlighting a sense of cultural uniqueness in an era when their city’s privileged status was challenged. Towards the end of the chronological limits set in this thesis various versions of Romanitas would emerge indicating new physical and spiritual potentials.

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