Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging

by Dean Hammer

Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in attempts to answer the question of who We are. The wide-ranging chapters reassess both Roman antecedents and American expressions of the myth in some unexpected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009249606
• ISBN13: 9781009249607
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"