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SUMMARY:The topography of decline: Gibbon and the city of Rome - Catharine
  Edwards\, Birkbeck
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CONTACT:Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:While Gibbon’s monumental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empi
 re is concerned with the fate of the empire as a whole\, Rome as a city ha
 s a critical role to play in his account. The Capitoline hill\, one of Rom
 e’s most symbolically resonant locations and the culmination of the anci
 ent ritual of the triumph\, is presented as the spot where he conceived hi
 s historical project and where his history itself draws to a close. Gibbon
 ’s cityscape serves not as a backdrop to historical events but rather as
  an agent\, with the capacity to inspire different individuals and groups 
 to particular actions – and to inflect the interpretation of those actio
 ns.\n
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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