Rome, Empire of Plunder by Matthew P. Loar, Carolyn MacDonald... - 9781108418423

Rome, Empire of PlunderThe Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation\nAuthor(s): Matthew P. Loar, Carolyn MacDonald, Dan-el Padilla Peralta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108418423, 978-1108418423\nSynopsis\nBringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an interdisciplinary understanding of Roman cultural appropriation - approached not as a set of distinct practices but as a hydra-headed phenomenon through which Rome made and remade itself, as a Republic and as an Empire, on Italian soil and abroad. The studies gathered in this volume range from the literary thefts of the first Latin comic poets to the grand-scale spoliation of Egyptian obelisks by a succession of emperors, and from Hispania to Pergamon to Qasr Ibrim. Applying a range of theoretical perspectives on cultural appropriation, contributors probe the viol.