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Politics in the Monuments of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar

Politics in the Monuments of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar

Zampieri, Eleonora

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Ancient Rome

ISBN10: 0367521563
ISBN13: 9780367521561
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the diachronic development of the ideological content of Pompey and Caesar's monuments in Rome, emphasising the importance of the late Republican period as a precursor to imperial propaganda through architecture.

In the final years of the Roman Republic, individuals such as Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar exploited the communicative power of architecture. The former promoted the first and largest stone theatre in Rome; the latter started comprehensive town-planning projects that arguably verged on the utopian. Yet the study of the politics expressed by these monuments and how complex late Republican politics shaped the monuments themselves has attracted less attention than that of subsequent imperial architecture. Zampieri addresses this imbalance, exploring the ideological meaning of late Republican monuments and highlighting that monuments were fluid, adaptable entities, even in the lifespan of a single individual. Accompanied by detailed maps and images, this volume shows how late Republican architecture should be considered an important source for understanding politics of this period.

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