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Article: Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945.(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945. Catherine Edwards, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]40.00/US$64.95. 279 pages. ISBN 0-521-59197-X. The domination which Greek and Roman literature and archaeology held over eighteenth-century Englishmen has become a new field of academic endeavour. Seldom has a 'dead' civilisation played such an important role in a live one. But this phenomenon was not just limited to Britain nor to the eighteenth century. This collection of essays traces the cultural influence of Rome over Europe from the ...
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