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

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

The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Palgrave Macmillan | History | September 14, 2016 | ISBN-10: 1137569964 | 222 pages | pdf | 1.92 mb

Authors: Theodore, Jonathan
Investigates the 'myth' of the decline and fall of Rome in British and American culture
Analyses how writers, filmmakers and the media conceptualise this narrative and draw parallels to contemporary world
Argues the 'rise and fall' is a myth representing fears of the instability of civilisations then and now


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.

Topics
Ancient History
Cultural History
History of Ancient Europe



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