LEADER 03361nam 22005655 450 001 9910254775603321 005 20200930202330.0 010 $a1-137-56997-2 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-56997-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000830503 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-56997-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4720071 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000830503 100 $a20160813d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire /$fby Jonathan Theodore 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 228 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the History of the Media,$x2634-6575 311 $a1-137-56996-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis book investigates the ?decline and fall? of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media have conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn, deliberately or unconsciously, to their contemporary world. Jonathan Theodore argues that the decline and fall of Rome is no straightforward historical fact, but a ?myth? in terms coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss, meaning not a ?falsehood? but a complex social and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived instability and pitfalls of the civilization to which they belonged. The material gathered in this book illustrates the value of this idea as a spatiotemporal concept, rather than a historical event ? a narrative with its own unique moral purpose. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the History of the Media,$x2634-6575 606 $aHistory, Ancient 606 $aCivilization?History 606 $aEurope?History?To 476 606 $aAncient History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/712000 606 $aCultural History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000 606 $aHistory of Ancient Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717010 607 $aRome$xHistory$yEmpire, 284-476 607 $aRome (Empire)$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aHistory, Ancient. 615 0$aCivilization?History. 615 0$aEurope?History?To 476. 615 14$aAncient History. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aHistory of Ancient Europe. 676 $a930 700 $aTheodore$b Jonathan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0894502 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254775603321 996 $aThe Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire$91998298 997 $aUNINA