The Image of Ancient Rome in the Cinema
Carl J. Mora
The ancestral memory of the Roman Empire has been most persistent theme defining European civilization. From this vanished political entity antiquity modern divisions Western, Central, and Eastern Europe have drawn much their governmental, military, religious, cultural heritage practice. It is not surprising then that repeatedly sought to reestablish a semblage «the glory was Rome»-beginning with Charlmagne's Carolingian in 6th century A.D., continuing Holy 8th A.D. (which lasted until 1806), followed by various renaissances beginning 14th which recuperate scattered classical literary traditions. culmination these neo-Roman restorative trends came 20th Italian German Fascists' overwrought attempts recreate what they perceived martial spectacle power ancient Rome.
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