Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion Temples, Terracottas, and the Shaping of Identity, 3rd-1st c. BCE
Book contents
- Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
- Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- One Introduction
- Two Chronological Uncertainties and the “Romanization” Tangle
- Three The Power of the Past
- Four Local Identities and Local Networks
- Five Inventing History, Inventing Identity
- Six Reframing and Remediating
- Seven Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Five - Inventing History, Inventing Identity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2025
Book contents
- Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
- Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- One Introduction
- Two Chronological Uncertainties and the “Romanization” Tangle
- Three The Power of the Past
- Four Local Identities and Local Networks
- Five Inventing History, Inventing Identity
- Six Reframing and Remediating
- Seven Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 asks why new colonies turned so invariably to old-fashioned motifs and to the visual culture of their conquered enemies. This phenomenon is discussed in terms of the heterogenous makeup of colonial populations, which had no single visual culture to import, and is then related to broader issues of collective memory, identity formation, and the invention of tradition.
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- Religious Architecture and Roman ExpansionTemples, Terracottas, and the Shaping of Identity, 3rd-1st c. BCE, pp. 174 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025