Evoking the Dead Michael Brian Murphy power and conflict

power and conflict

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become more discerning about the forces that have shaped their communities

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but not to be of it

Evoking the Dead Michael Brian Murphy power and conflictHow Romans built their past and made it speak. During the turbulent transition from Republic to Empire, Romans became intensely preoccupied with their own past. In Evoking the Dead, W. Martin Bloomer examines how memory was constructed, organized, and put to work in this moment of political uncertainty and how literature became one of its most powerful instruments. Bloomer focuses on a group of authors writing in the late Republic and early Empire,