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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
- Part III Building Cultural Memory
- Chapter 15 Sites of Exemplarity and the Challenge of Accessing the Cultural Memory of the Republic
- Chapter 16 The Festival of the Lupercalia as a Vehicle of Cultural Memory in the Roman Republic
- Chapter 17 Inscriptions on the Capitoline: Epigraphy and Cultural Memory in Livy
- Chapter 18 Cultural Memory and the Role of the Architect in Vitruvius’ De Architectura
- Part IV Locating Cultural Memory
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Chapter 15 - Sites of Exemplarity and the Challenge of Accessing the Cultural Memory of the Republic
from Part III - Building 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
- Part III Building Cultural Memory
- Chapter 15 Sites of Exemplarity and the Challenge of Accessing the Cultural Memory of the Republic
- Chapter 16 The Festival of the Lupercalia as a Vehicle of Cultural Memory in the Roman Republic
- Chapter 17 Inscriptions on the Capitoline: Epigraphy and Cultural Memory in Livy
- Chapter 18 Cultural Memory and the Role of the Architect in Vitruvius’ De Architectura
- Part IV Locating Cultural Memory
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Summary
his chapter will discuss some of the ways that recent scholarship on cultural memory has contributed to thinking about the role of exempla in Roman culture, and particularly to the development of the idea of the ‘site of exemplarity’.1 It will also suggest how insights found in this scholarship might sharpen our appreciation of some of the challenges that face modern scholars who are studying cultural memory in antiquity, especially when it comes to the Roman republic from which so little written testimony survives. These themes will be focused through the discussion of the somewhat obscure case of Vibellius Taurea, a bold native of the city of Capua who clashed with the Romans during the Second Punic War.
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- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome , pp. 261 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023