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The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Title/Author:	The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire/ by Jonathan Theodore.
Author:	Theodore, Jonathan.
Description:	X, 228 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	History, Ancient. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56997-4
ISBN:	9781137569974

The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Theodore, Jonathan.

The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire[electronic resource] /by Jonathan Theodore. - 1st ed. 2016. - X, 228 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media,2634-6575. - Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media,.

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.

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 Lévi-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. .

ISBN: 9781137569974

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-56997-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

580001
History, Ancient.

LC Class. No.: D51-95

Dewey Class. No.: 930

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