Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England Book

This book is the first to look at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture. In the century following the Revolution of 1688, the ruling class promoted SH by way of its patronage SH a classical frame of mind embracing all the arts, on the foundations of 'liberty' and 'civic virtue'. Ayres' study shows that the propensity to adopt the self-image of virtuous Romans was the attempt of a newly empowered oligarchy to dignify and vindicate itself by association with an idealised image of Republican Rome.Read More

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  • 0521584906
  • 9780521584906
  • Philip Ayres
  • 28 August 1997
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 265
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