Title Ancient Rome as a museum : power, identity, and the culture of collecting / Steven H. Rutledge

Edition 1st ed Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 393 pages (illustrations)) Series Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. Contents Introduction: museums and muses -- Collecting and acquisition -- Viewing, appreciating, understanding -- Displaying domination: spoils, war commemoratives, and competition -- Constructing social identity: pietas, women and the Roman house -- The monster and the map -- Imperial collections and the narrative of the Princeps -- Access and upkeep -- Epilogue Summary This volume considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-337) and indexes Subject Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Rome National characteristics, Roman. Art objects -- Collectors and collecting Civilization National characteristics, Roman SUBJECT Rome -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094 Subject Rome (Empire) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199573233 0199573239 9780191804441 0191804444

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