The modern cultural myth of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

• 作者： Theodore, Jonathan, author.
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  • Palgrave studies in the history of the media.
• 出版： London : Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in the history of the media
• 主題： Rome--History--Empire, 284-476. , History. , Ancient History. , Cultural History. , History of Ancient Europe.
• ISBN： 9781137569974 (electronic bk.) 、 9781137569967 (paper)
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• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Introduction -- 1: Historiography, myth and visual culture -- 2: The Fall of Rome and ideas of decline -- 3: Roman decline and the West in the modern age -- 4: Decadence, imperialism and decline from the late Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
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• 摘要註: This book investigates the 'decline and fall' of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media have conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn, deliberately or unconsciously, to their contemporary world. Jonathan Theodore argues that the decline and fall of Rome is no straightforward historical fact, but a 'myth' in terms coined by Claude Levi-Strauss, meaning not a 'falsehood' but a complex social and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived instability and pitfalls of the civilization to which they belonged. The material gathered in this book illustrates the value of this idea as a spatiotemporal concept, rather than a historical event - a narrative with its own unique moral purpose.
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