The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349848935)

Introduction.- Representation and Myth; Hermeneutics and Historical Consciousness; Antiquity, Past and Present; Methodology.- 1: Historiography, Myth and Visual Culture.- The Fall of the Western Roman Empire and its Modern Historiography; The Decline and Fall as an Atypical Model of Myth; Myth as Interdisciplinary Study; Theories of Myth; Historiography, Myth and Literature; Historical "Consciousness" and Narrative; Classics and The Vernacular; Film and a Consciousness of Antiquity; Truth and Accuracy in Historical Cinema.- 2: The Fall of Rome and Ideas of Decline.- The Tradition of Decline; Gibbon's Decline and Fall; Gibbon and Concepts of Decadence.- 3: Roman Decline and the West in the Modern Age.- Rome and Reflections on Twentieth Century Society; Roman Narratives and the Cold War; Mann, Hollywood and Historical "Truth"; The Fall and Contemporary Discourses of Empire.- 4: Decadence, Imperialism and Decline from the Late Twentieth Century.- Mass Culture and its Critics; Gladiator, Rome And America in 2000 Ad; 9/11 and Critics of Empire; Cinema and the Decline and Fall in the New Millennium; Rome, Civilization and The Modern Age.- Conclusion.- Bibliography


Author: Jonathan Theodore
ISBN-10: 134984893X
ISBN-13: 9781349848935
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2018
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.51d