Beyond the Romans by Selsvold Irene; Webb Lewis;

Author:Selsvold, Irene; Webb, Lewis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
Publisher: Oxbow Books, Limited
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Thus, we can see that within this framework that allowed general intelligibility, there was a certain flexibility of interpretation and pliability of meaning that could further, even significantly, change in different spatiotemporal settings (see similar notions in Pongratz-Leisten and Sonik 2015: 11, stressing further the importance of the individual’s experience and cultural memory for the construction of meaning and the identification thereof; Blevins 2017: 256). The precondition for all of this to work was that the material manifestations’ audience belonged to the same ‘epistemic, linguistic and interpretive community’ (Ando 2015: 71; or ‘cultural learning and experience’ in Pongratz-Leisten and Sonik 2015: 32–33, 35), in this case, the community of Imperial Rome’s inhabitants as a whole, or the smaller community of those people who were engaged in the cult of Magna Mater, Isis, or any other god. What all these different objects had in common was their ownership of agency through their materiality: they presenced, explicitly and directly or more subtly, the gods and thus the possibility of communication with them, both reminding the people retrospectively that it had taken place in the past and giving them the assurance that it would also take place in the future.

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