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The Creation of a Roman Political Persona Through Literature

by Alban Pope
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235237049
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Colloquium Verlag
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  • Pages: 196
  • Original Price: GBP 13.49
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 232 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Rome

In the intense, highly competitive arena of Roman public life, a politician's survival and success depended entirely on their ability to craft, project, and defend a distinct public identity. This identity, known as a persona, was not a mere passive reflection of a man's character or ancestry; it was an actively engineered political monument. To the Roman ruling class, identity was an ongoing performance that required validation from peers, the populace, and posterity. While the early centuries of the Roman Republic relied primarily on oral traditions, physical spectacles, and fleeting public rituals to establish this authority, the late Republic and subsequent Empire witnessed a profound cultural shift. Romans discovered that literature-written prose, history, poetry, philosophy, and published oratory-offered a uniquely powerful medium for self-fashioning. By committing their political ideals, military achievements, and moral values to text, Roman elite figures could transcend the temporary nature of the speaker's platform. They could build a permanent, carefully curated version of themselves that could travel across the expanding Mediterranean world and survive long after their deaths. This book explores that deliberate process, examining how Roman political leaders used literary genres not merely to document reality, but to invent, refine, and enforce their public personas.

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