Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World Architectural Restoration and Temporality from Augustus to Justinian
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- Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World
- Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Patrons and Communities
- Part II Architectural Autobiographies
- 4 Restorations’ Assembled Records
- 5 Infrastructure and Maintenance Time
- 6 The Old and/in the New
- Part III “Unmarked” Changes
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - The Old and/in the New
Commemorating Rebuilding and Evoking Ruins Past
from Part II - Architectural Autobiographies
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Book contents
- Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World
- Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Patrons and Communities
- Part II Architectural Autobiographies
- 4 Restorations’ Assembled Records
- 5 Infrastructure and Maintenance Time
- 6 The Old and/in the New
- Part III “Unmarked” Changes
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 digs deeper into the textual conventions deployed in many of the monumental inscriptions set up on restored structures. In particular, it points to how they responded to and influenced the experience of the inexorable degradation of time through a rhetoric of ruin and fragmentation that both naturalized and justified the form or extent of rebuilding and in late antiquity shifted to increasingly vivid, sensorially affective forms.
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- Rebuilding Histories in the Roman WorldArchitectural Restoration and Temporality from Augustus to Justinian, pp. 274 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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