Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009445115 |
| ISBN10: | 1009445111 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 350 pages |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
Temples, Terracottas, and the Shaping of Identity, 3rd-1st c. BCE
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 31 January 2025
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Short description:
Uses architectural terracottas as a lens for examining the changing landscape of central Italy during the period of Roman military expansion.
Long description:
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion&&&160;uses architectural terracottas as a lens for examining the changing landscape of central Italy during the period of Roman military expansion, and for asking how local communities reacted to this new political reality.&&&160;It emphasizes the role of local networks and exchange in the creation of communal identity, as well as the power of visual expression in the formulation and promotion of local history.&&&160;Through detailed analyses of temple terracottas, Sophie Crawford-Brown sheds new light on 'Romanization' and colonization processes between the 3rd&&&160;and 1st&&&160;centuries BCE.&&&160; She investigates the interactions between colonies and indigenous communities, asking why conquerors might visually emulate the conquered, and what this can mean for power relations in colonial situations.&&&160;Finally, Crawford-Brown explores the role of objects in creating cultural memory and the intensity of our need for collective history-even when that 'history' has been largely invented.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Chronological uncertainties and the 'Romanization' tangle; 3. The power of the past: conscious archaizing and the development of the 'standard temple kit'; 4. Local identity and local networks: two case studies; 5. Inventing history, inventing identity; 6. Reframing and remediating: reception of architectural terracottas in the early empire; 7. Conclusion.