Jacob A. Latham
Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome
Jacob A. Latham
Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome
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Jacob A. Latham explores the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession through Rome's history.
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Jacob A. Latham explores the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession through Rome's history.
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 886g
- ISBN-13: 9781107130715
- ISBN-10: 1107130719
- Artikelnr.: 45019274
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 886g
- ISBN-13: 9781107130715
- ISBN-10: 1107130719
- Artikelnr.: 45019274
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Books on Demand GmbH
- In de Tarpen 42
- 22848 Norderstedt
- info@bod.de
- 040 53433511
Jacob A. Latham is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. He has also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Pomona College, California. He is a historian of the religions of Rome, whose research explores the intersections of religious practice, civic life, and identity in the ancient Mediterranean world. He was awarded the 2005-6 Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship by the American Academy in Rome and the 2014 Best First Article Award by the North American Patristics Society. His work has appeared in Church History, History of Religions, the Journal of Religion, and Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome and a number of edited volumes.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: 1. History in the subjunctive
2. Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and Imperialism
3. Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis
Part I. An Ideal-type between the Republic and Memories of the Republic: 1. Pompa hominum: gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure
1.1 'Rituals in ink': Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1.2 Gravity, levity, and ritual resonance in the pompa hominum
1.2.1 'Those holding the greatest authority'
1.2.2 '[Roman] sons on the verge of manhood'
1.2.3 'The charioteers followed'
1.2.4 'Numerous companies of dancers'
1.2.5 'Bands of dancers playing satyrs'
1.2.6 'Censers in which incense and frankincense were burned'
1.3 Wonder: spectacle and the pompa circensis
1.4 Ritual failure in the pompa hominum
2. Pompa deorum: performing theology, performing the gods
2.1 Religious education and performed 'theology'
2.2 Performing the gods
2.2.1 Fercula and simulacra
2.2.2 Exuviae and tensae
2.2.3 Folkloric figures
2.3 Regulations, risks, and ritual failure in the pompa deorum
3. Iter pompae circensis: memory, resonance, the image of the city
3.1 An itinerary of collective memory
3.2 Resonance and repetition
3.2.1 Capitolium: 'the citadel and Capitolium, the seat of the gods, the senate, and the head of public judgment'
3.3.2 Forum Romanum: 'wider intercolumniations should be distributed around the spectacles... and in balconies should be placed in the upper stories'
3.2.3 Velabrum: 'the vile throng of the vicus Tuscus'
3.2.4 Aedes Cereris
3.2.5 Circus Maximus: 'they come to see, they come that they may be seen'
3.3 Imaging Rome on the ground and in the imagination
3.3.1 Way-finding in Republican Rome
3.3.2 Symbolic cityscapes: Senatus populusque Romanus et dei and Aurea Roma
3.4 An ideal-type between the Republic and memories of the Republic
Part II. The Pompa Circensis from Julius Caesar to Late Antiquity: 4. 'Honors greater than human': Imperial cult and the pompa circensis
4.1 Imperial gods in the pompa circensis: from Caesar to the Severans
4.1.1 Dynastic beginnings: Caesar to Augustus
4.1.2 The Augustan settlement: honoring divus Augustus
4.1.3 Innovation into tradition: the Julio-Claudians
4.1.4 Divi, divae, and the imperial family from the Flavians to the Severans
4.1.5 The traditional gods
4.2 An imperial palimpsest: the itinerary from Augustus to Septimius Severus
4.2.1 Restoring cultural memory in Imperial Rome
4.2.2 Deus Praesens: Imperial cult temples and triumphal arches
5. Behind 'the Veil of power': ritual failure, ordinary humans, and Ludic processions during the High Empire
5.1 Imperial ritual failure
5.2 'Ordinary' humans in the pompa circensis
5.3 The pompa circensis outside Rome and the pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.3.1 The pompa circensis outside Rome
5.3.2 The pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.4 'The horses, fleet as the wind, will contend for the first palm'
6. The pompa circensis in Late Antiquity: imperialization, Christianization, restoration
6.1 Pompa diaboli: Christian rhetoric and the pompa circensis
6.2 Voluptates: imperial law and the 'secularization' of the ludi
6.3 Emperors and victory: the pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.4 The sub-imperial pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.5 Restoring the 'Republic': the Late Antique itinerary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: 1. History in the subjunctive
2. Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and Imperialism
3. Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis
Part I. An Ideal-type between the Republic and Memories of the Republic: 1. Pompa hominum: gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure
1.1 'Rituals in ink': Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1.2 Gravity, levity, and ritual resonance in the pompa hominum
1.2.1 'Those holding the greatest authority'
1.2.2 '[Roman] sons on the verge of manhood'
1.2.3 'The charioteers followed'
1.2.4 'Numerous companies of dancers'
1.2.5 'Bands of dancers playing satyrs'
1.2.6 'Censers in which incense and frankincense were burned'
1.3 Wonder: spectacle and the pompa circensis
1.4 Ritual failure in the pompa hominum
2. Pompa deorum: performing theology, performing the gods
2.1 Religious education and performed 'theology'
2.2 Performing the gods
2.2.1 Fercula and simulacra
2.2.2 Exuviae and tensae
2.2.3 Folkloric figures
2.3 Regulations, risks, and ritual failure in the pompa deorum
3. Iter pompae circensis: memory, resonance, the image of the city
3.1 An itinerary of collective memory
3.2 Resonance and repetition
3.2.1 Capitolium: 'the citadel and Capitolium, the seat of the gods, the senate, and the head of public judgment'
3.3.2 Forum Romanum: 'wider intercolumniations should be distributed around the spectacles... and in balconies should be placed in the upper stories'
3.2.3 Velabrum: 'the vile throng of the vicus Tuscus'
3.2.4 Aedes Cereris
3.2.5 Circus Maximus: 'they come to see, they come that they may be seen'
3.3 Imaging Rome on the ground and in the imagination
3.3.1 Way-finding in Republican Rome
3.3.2 Symbolic cityscapes: Senatus populusque Romanus et dei and Aurea Roma
3.4 An ideal-type between the Republic and memories of the Republic
Part II. The Pompa Circensis from Julius Caesar to Late Antiquity: 4. 'Honors greater than human': Imperial cult and the pompa circensis
4.1 Imperial gods in the pompa circensis: from Caesar to the Severans
4.1.1 Dynastic beginnings: Caesar to Augustus
4.1.2 The Augustan settlement: honoring divus Augustus
4.1.3 Innovation into tradition: the Julio-Claudians
4.1.4 Divi, divae, and the imperial family from the Flavians to the Severans
4.1.5 The traditional gods
4.2 An imperial palimpsest: the itinerary from Augustus to Septimius Severus
4.2.1 Restoring cultural memory in Imperial Rome
4.2.2 Deus Praesens: Imperial cult temples and triumphal arches
5. Behind 'the Veil of power': ritual failure, ordinary humans, and Ludic processions during the High Empire
5.1 Imperial ritual failure
5.2 'Ordinary' humans in the pompa circensis
5.3 The pompa circensis outside Rome and the pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.3.1 The pompa circensis outside Rome
5.3.2 The pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.4 'The horses, fleet as the wind, will contend for the first palm'
6. The pompa circensis in Late Antiquity: imperialization, Christianization, restoration
6.1 Pompa diaboli: Christian rhetoric and the pompa circensis
6.2 Voluptates: imperial law and the 'secularization' of the ludi
6.3 Emperors and victory: the pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.4 The sub-imperial pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.5 Restoring the 'Republic': the Late Antique itinerary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: 1. History in the subjunctive
2. Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and Imperialism
3. Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis
Part I. An Ideal-type between the Republic and Memories of the Republic: 1. Pompa hominum: gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure
1.1 'Rituals in ink': Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1.2 Gravity, levity, and ritual resonance in the pompa hominum
1.2.1 'Those holding the greatest authority'
1.2.2 '[Roman] sons on the verge of manhood'
1.2.3 'The charioteers followed'
1.2.4 'Numerous companies of dancers'
1.2.5 'Bands of dancers playing satyrs'
1.2.6 'Censers in which incense and frankincense were burned'
1.3 Wonder: spectacle and the pompa circensis
1.4 Ritual failure in the pompa hominum
2. Pompa deorum: performing theology, performing the gods
2.1 Religious education and performed 'theology'
2.2 Performing the gods
2.2.1 Fercula and simulacra
2.2.2 Exuviae and tensae
2.2.3 Folkloric figures
2.3 Regulations, risks, and ritual failure in the pompa deorum
3. Iter pompae circensis: memory, resonance, the image of the city
3.1 An itinerary of collective memory
3.2 Resonance and repetition
3.2.1 Capitolium: 'the citadel and Capitolium, the seat of the gods, the senate, and the head of public judgment'
3.3.2 Forum Romanum: 'wider intercolumniations should be distributed around the spectacles... and in balconies should be placed in the upper stories'
3.2.3 Velabrum: 'the vile throng of the vicus Tuscus'
3.2.4 Aedes Cereris
3.2.5 Circus Maximus: 'they come to see, they come that they may be seen'
3.3 Imaging Rome on the ground and in the imagination
3.3.1 Way-finding in Republican Rome
3.3.2 Symbolic cityscapes: Senatus populusque Romanus et dei and Aurea Roma
3.4 An ideal-type between the Republic and memories of the Republic
Part II. The Pompa Circensis from Julius Caesar to Late Antiquity: 4. 'Honors greater than human': Imperial cult and the pompa circensis
4.1 Imperial gods in the pompa circensis: from Caesar to the Severans
4.1.1 Dynastic beginnings: Caesar to Augustus
4.1.2 The Augustan settlement: honoring divus Augustus
4.1.3 Innovation into tradition: the Julio-Claudians
4.1.4 Divi, divae, and the imperial family from the Flavians to the Severans
4.1.5 The traditional gods
4.2 An imperial palimpsest: the itinerary from Augustus to Septimius Severus
4.2.1 Restoring cultural memory in Imperial Rome
4.2.2 Deus Praesens: Imperial cult temples and triumphal arches
5. Behind 'the Veil of power': ritual failure, ordinary humans, and Ludic processions during the High Empire
5.1 Imperial ritual failure
5.2 'Ordinary' humans in the pompa circensis
5.3 The pompa circensis outside Rome and the pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.3.1 The pompa circensis outside Rome
5.3.2 The pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.4 'The horses, fleet as the wind, will contend for the first palm'
6. The pompa circensis in Late Antiquity: imperialization, Christianization, restoration
6.1 Pompa diaboli: Christian rhetoric and the pompa circensis
6.2 Voluptates: imperial law and the 'secularization' of the ludi
6.3 Emperors and victory: the pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.4 The sub-imperial pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.5 Restoring the 'Republic': the Late Antique itinerary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: 1. History in the subjunctive
2. Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and Imperialism
3. Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis
Part I. An Ideal-type between the Republic and Memories of the Republic: 1. Pompa hominum: gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure
1.1 'Rituals in ink': Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1.2 Gravity, levity, and ritual resonance in the pompa hominum
1.2.1 'Those holding the greatest authority'
1.2.2 '[Roman] sons on the verge of manhood'
1.2.3 'The charioteers followed'
1.2.4 'Numerous companies of dancers'
1.2.5 'Bands of dancers playing satyrs'
1.2.6 'Censers in which incense and frankincense were burned'
1.3 Wonder: spectacle and the pompa circensis
1.4 Ritual failure in the pompa hominum
2. Pompa deorum: performing theology, performing the gods
2.1 Religious education and performed 'theology'
2.2 Performing the gods
2.2.1 Fercula and simulacra
2.2.2 Exuviae and tensae
2.2.3 Folkloric figures
2.3 Regulations, risks, and ritual failure in the pompa deorum
3. Iter pompae circensis: memory, resonance, the image of the city
3.1 An itinerary of collective memory
3.2 Resonance and repetition
3.2.1 Capitolium: 'the citadel and Capitolium, the seat of the gods, the senate, and the head of public judgment'
3.3.2 Forum Romanum: 'wider intercolumniations should be distributed around the spectacles... and in balconies should be placed in the upper stories'
3.2.3 Velabrum: 'the vile throng of the vicus Tuscus'
3.2.4 Aedes Cereris
3.2.5 Circus Maximus: 'they come to see, they come that they may be seen'
3.3 Imaging Rome on the ground and in the imagination
3.3.1 Way-finding in Republican Rome
3.3.2 Symbolic cityscapes: Senatus populusque Romanus et dei and Aurea Roma
3.4 An ideal-type between the Republic and memories of the Republic
Part II. The Pompa Circensis from Julius Caesar to Late Antiquity: 4. 'Honors greater than human': Imperial cult and the pompa circensis
4.1 Imperial gods in the pompa circensis: from Caesar to the Severans
4.1.1 Dynastic beginnings: Caesar to Augustus
4.1.2 The Augustan settlement: honoring divus Augustus
4.1.3 Innovation into tradition: the Julio-Claudians
4.1.4 Divi, divae, and the imperial family from the Flavians to the Severans
4.1.5 The traditional gods
4.2 An imperial palimpsest: the itinerary from Augustus to Septimius Severus
4.2.1 Restoring cultural memory in Imperial Rome
4.2.2 Deus Praesens: Imperial cult temples and triumphal arches
5. Behind 'the Veil of power': ritual failure, ordinary humans, and Ludic processions during the High Empire
5.1 Imperial ritual failure
5.2 'Ordinary' humans in the pompa circensis
5.3 The pompa circensis outside Rome and the pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.3.1 The pompa circensis outside Rome
5.3.2 The pompa (amphi-)theatralis
5.4 'The horses, fleet as the wind, will contend for the first palm'
6. The pompa circensis in Late Antiquity: imperialization, Christianization, restoration
6.1 Pompa diaboli: Christian rhetoric and the pompa circensis
6.2 Voluptates: imperial law and the 'secularization' of the ludi
6.3 Emperors and victory: the pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.4 The sub-imperial pompa circensis in Late Antiquity
6.5 Restoring the 'Republic': the Late Antique itinerary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.