[eBook] [PDF] For Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece Memory, Monuments, Texts 1st Edition By Estelle Strazdins

[eBook] [PDF] For Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece Memory, Monuments, Texts 1st Edition By Estelle Strazdins

Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts* discusses life perception of time by Greeks during the Roman Empire. This book addresses their other ways, apart from narration, through which they engaged with the both the past and the future – art and constructions. There’s a common misconception that these Greeks only cared about their history, yet this book dispels that notion, showing that they were very much preoccupied with what they will inherit their descendants.
Strazdins as an author explains that in order to define what such Greeks were like, it’s necessary to consider both their written works as well as their created architecture. For example, Herodes Atticus and Lucian are cut out of this image and placed amongst other great people to show how the fame is sought but the legacy is its’ greatest concern.

This volume addresses the other aspect, why these Greeks were so dedicated into writing their names down, and why they dreaded the thought of their stories and names turning into whispers – they understood the power of remembrance. It eases the comprehension of the causes of such zeal to create and leave a distinct mark throughout the history. which also defined their culture and politics in the Roman Empire history.