03361nam 22005655 450 991025477560332120200930202330.01-137-56997-210.1057/978-1-137-56997-4(CKB)3710000000830503(DE-He213)978-1-137-56997-4(MiAaPQ)EBC4720071(EXLCZ)99371000000083050320160813d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire /by Jonathan Theodore1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (X, 228 p.) Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media,2634-65751-137-56996-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- 1: Historiography, myth and visual culture -- 2: The Fall of Rome and ideas of decline -- 3: Roman decline and the West in the modern age -- 4: Decadence, imperialism and decline from the late Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.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. .Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media,2634-6575History, AncientCivilization—HistoryEurope—History—To 476Ancient Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/712000Cultural Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000History of Ancient Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717010RomeHistoryEmpire, 284-476Rome (Empire)fastHistory.fastHistory, Ancient.Civilization—History.Europe—History—To 476.Ancient History.Cultural History.History of Ancient Europe.930Theodore Jonathanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut894502BOOK9910254775603321The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire1998298UNINA