Empire and Memory
Subtitle: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture (Roman Literature and its Contexts)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521836227
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Memory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Ancient Rome; Political aspects; Ancient and Classical; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Latin literature; History and criticism; Literature and history; Rome
First sentence: The emperor Tiberius was once approached by a man who addressed to him a question beginning with the word meministi - "do you remember . . . ?" (Sen. Ben. 5.25.2).