Visuality and memory: political disputes and construction of the past in Rome in the ages of Caesar and Augustus (I BC - I AD)

• Grant number: 20/03091-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): October 01, 2020
• Effective date (End): May 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Aparecido Rede
• Grantee: Giovanni Pando Bueno
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project proposes to investigate the plural phenomenon of memory construction from the imagetic dimension, mobilized by multiple social classes that claimed different elements of the past in order to position themselves in a Rome that was undergoing political reconfigurations: a complex scenario that instigates questions related to memorial clashes, processes of forgetting and structuring of identities. To this end, we will analyze a corpus of material and iconographic sources, dating from the beginning of the triumviral period in Rome to the end of the Principate of Augustus (from 60 BC to 14 AD). (AU)