The Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity: From Eternal City to Imagined Utopia
Ioannis Papadopoulos, "The Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity: From Eternal City to Imagined Utopia"
English | ISBN: 104118820X | 2025 | 234 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 104118820X | 2025 | 234 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book approaches the manifestation and evolution of the idea of Rome as an expression of Roman patriotism and as an (urban) archetype of utopia in late Roman thought in a period extending from AD 357 to 417. Within this period of about a human lifetime, the concepts of Rome and Romanitas were reshaped and used for various ideological causes. This monograph unfolds through a selection of sources that represent the patterns and diversity of this ideological process. The theme of Rome as a personified and anthropomorphic figure and as an epitomized notion 'applied' on the urban landscape would become part of the identity of the Romans of Rome highlighting a sense of cultural uniqueness in an era when their city’s privileged status was challenged. Towards the end of the chronological limits set in this thesis various versions of
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