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Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England
by Philip Ayres and Ayres Philip
Overview
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--by way of its patronage--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 idealized image of Republican Rome.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521105798
- ISBN-10: 052110579X
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: March 2009
- Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.62 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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