Description
A brilliant and revealing exploration of ancient Rome’s most celebrated public ritual, this book examines the triumph awarded to victorious generals and the powerful political, religious, and cultural meanings it carried. Drawing on literary accounts, historical records, visual evidence, and the fragmentary testimony of the Fasti Triumphales, it asks how triumphs were staged, remembered, reshaped, and used to define Rome’s imperial identity. The ceremony emerges not as a simple celebration of military success, but as a carefully constructed performance shaped by rivalry, anxiety, spectacle, and selective memory. With characteristic wit, skepticism, and erudition, the author shows how the story of the Roman triumph is ultimately as much about its retelling as about the procession itself.
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hardcover
Belknap Press
Published Oct 30, 2007
448 pages
ISBN: 9780674026131
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First Published
2007
Language
eng
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