Art of Forgetting

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The idea of a returning golden age (or, more properly, a renascent golden race1) is widely understood and commonly presented both as a staple of Augustan propaganda and as a pervasive aspiration of Augustan society. The Carmen Saeculare—an official commission for a public festival—is presented as a means by which the regime proclaimed to an enthusiastic populace the imminent renascence of the golden race. The aim of this article is to draw attention both to the failure of the Carmen Saeculare explicitly to proclaim the renascence of the race, and to the critique implicit in the poem of the very idea of a renascence. The golden race, according to this reading, might be undesirable on account of its very goldenness. The golden race was the subject of a complex myth at the centre of a complex discourse: neither the ‘official’ nor the popular response to the idea of its return can have been as simple as they are frequently portrayed.

The golden age is proclaimed? The Carmen Saeculare and the renascence of the golden race’, Classical Quarterly, .

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Abstract This book consists of a series of case studies examining the representation of Roman emperors across more than two thousand years of history from antiquity to the present. The case studies cover a range of different texts, media, and contexts, ranging from histories, coins, and statues of the Roman imperial period to twentieth-century novels and museum exhibitions. This introductory chapter sets out the methodological and theoretical frameworks for the case studies and the volume as a whole. It first examines the mechanics of representation and theories of classical reception before exploring several key themes: the relationship between history and fiction; the rhetoric and creativity of images; the transmission of the Roman past; and the representation of Rome in imperialistic contexts. 

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