A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

by Kathleen S. Lamp

In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e.--14 c. e.).

Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to scholars of rhetoric, and moves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611172772
• ISBN13: 9781611172775
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"