Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome

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The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an ima...
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The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an ima...
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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9781316691977
  • Publication Date: 16 Aug 2016
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM