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- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Cultural Memory?
- Part I Writing Cultural Memory
- Part II Politicising Cultural Memory
- Chapter 10 Sulla’s Dictatorship Rei Publicae Constituendae and Roman Republican Cultural Memory
- Chapter 11 Remembering Differently: The Exemplarity ofPopulares as a Site of Ideological Contest in Late Republican Oratory
- Chapter 12 Cultural Memory and Political Change in the Public Speech of the Late Roman Republic
- Chapter 13 Remembering M. Brutus: From Mixed and Hostile Perspectives
- Chapter 14 The Making of an Exemplum: Cato’s Road to Uticensis in Roman Cultural Memory
- Part III Building Cultural Memory
- Part IV Locating Cultural Memory
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Chapter 12 - Cultural Memory and Political Change in the Public Speech of the Late Roman Republic
from Part II - Politicising Cultural Memory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2023
- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Cultural Memory?
- Part I Writing Cultural Memory
- Part II Politicising Cultural Memory
- Chapter 10 Sulla’s Dictatorship Rei Publicae Constituendae and Roman Republican Cultural Memory
- Chapter 11 Remembering Differently: The Exemplarity ofPopulares as a Site of Ideological Contest in Late Republican Oratory
- Chapter 12 Cultural Memory and Political Change in the Public Speech of the Late Roman Republic
- Chapter 13 Remembering M. Brutus: From Mixed and Hostile Perspectives
- Chapter 14 The Making of an Exemplum: Cato’s Road to Uticensis in Roman Cultural Memory
- Part III Building Cultural Memory
- Part IV Locating Cultural Memory
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Summary
Sulla’s dictatorship transformed Rome politically, socially, and physically.1 The changes which he imposed created winners as well as losers; but collectively the experience of his rule was traumatic, combining unprecedented violence directed at individuals with continuing uncertainty around fundamental citizen rights.2 The trauma persisted, in the transformation in the operation of the res publica, the Roman state, which was regularly repeated through the annual political cycle; in the reshaping of the fabric of the city, including Sulla’s self-memorialisation and the elimination of memorials to his chief rival Marius; and in the ongoing marginalisation of the descendants of his victims, not simply deprived of their property which had been transferred to new owners but also deprived of their citizen rights.
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- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome , pp. 203 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023