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The First Hall of Fame - 9789004168695

Un libro in lingua di Joseph Geiger edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2008

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They are politicians, soldiers, saints, reformers, revolutionaries and visionaries. How they are chosen to be memorialized varies from place to place, and venues range from the stunningly simple, such as a wall with names, to the outrageously ornate, as in the many memorial sites that are efforts to explain national identities in flux. Geiger (classics emeritus, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) notes that few know that the assemblage of statues in the Forum Augustum were the first memorial of this kind, a "hall of fame" housing the memories in marble of an astonishing range of men and women. Geiger identifies the Greek background of this Roman manifestation of glory, and explains how the Forum worked within the structure and intentions of empire. He also locates the behaviors expected of an honoree and the influence of the Forum on later sites. The result is fascinating and directly applicable to modern efforts to praise the great and the nation. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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