The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Jonathan Theodore

Book Overview

Introduction.- Representation and Myth; Hermeneutics and Historical Consciousness; Antiquity, Past and Present; Methodology.- 1: Historiography, Myth and Visual Culture.- The Fall of the Western Roman Empire and its Modern Historiography; The Decline and Fall as an Atypical Model of Myth; Myth as Interdisciplinary Study; Theories of Myth; Historiography, Myth and Literature; Historical "Consciousness" and Narrative; Classics and The Vernacular;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134984893X
• ISBN13: 9781349848935
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"