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Record Nr.

UNISA996209836103316

Autore

Bell Andrew (Andrew J. E.)

Titolo

Spectacular power in the Greek and Roman city [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-929827-0

1-280-75352-8

9786610753529

0-19-152930-3

1-4237-5314-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

320.850937

Soggetti

Power (Social sciences) - Rome

Power (Social sciences) - Greece

Municipal government - Rome

Municipal government - Greece

Prestige

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Looking at the Powerful; 2 Looking at Caesar; 3 The Affections of the Athenians; 4 Kings and Elephants; 5 Elephants and Citizens; 6 Ciceronian Consensus; Afterword; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial discussion of the fall of Ceausescu in 1989 prompts theoretical considerations about the inseparability of authority and its manifestation; andscrutiny of Julius Caesar's gestures towards self-definition introduces the complexity of ancient political relation