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Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England Cambridge University Press, 1997, 245 pages, ISBN 0521 58490 6. £35.

Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England Cambridge... REVIEWS Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 24c pages, isbn or2i In the £35. — eighteenth century, classically-educated Englishmen (and Scots, for that matter), believers in the principles of the Revolution Settlement, benefiting from the economic advantages of an expanding empire and near-obsessed with the culture of antiquity and the idea of the Grand Tour, regarded themselves the undisputed heirs of Rome. Some of the ways in which the members of the British 'oligarchy of virtue' expressed this conceit are discussed in this important and perceptive book. Philip Ayres' central theme is the way that Romans. the British 'imaged' themselves (not perhaps the most felicitous of phrases) Spiritually they belonged to the classical past, and they sought to identify and associate themselves with that world in variety of ways, in which subtlety and allusion played a vital role. This link with an idealised image of Antiquity helped secure the ruling elite of Georgian Britain. Much of Ayre's discourse Roman ethos of the poet James Thomson, for example may not be regarded as directly of concern to members of society with the aims and as as a on — http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Architectural Heritage Edinburgh University Press

Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England Cambridge University Press, 1997, 245 pages, ISBN 0521 58490 6. £35.

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Architectural Heritage , Volume 11 (1): 105 – Jan 1, 2000
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REVIEWS Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 24c pages, isbn or2i In the £35. — eighteenth century, classically-educated Englishmen (and Scots, for that matter), believers in the principles of the Revolution Settlement, benefiting from the economic advantages of an expanding empire and near-obsessed with the culture of antiquity and the idea of the Grand Tour, regarded themselves the undisputed heirs of Rome. Some of the ways in which the members of the British 'oligarchy of virtue' expressed this conceit are discussed in this important and perceptive book. Philip Ayres' central theme is the way that Romans. the British 'imaged' themselves (not perhaps the most felicitous of phrases) Spiritually they belonged to the classical past, and they sought to identify and associate themselves with that world in variety of ways, in which subtlety and allusion played a vital role. This link with an idealised image of Antiquity helped secure the ruling elite of Georgian Britain. Much of Ayre's discourse Roman ethos of the poet James Thomson, for example may not be regarded as directly of concern to members of society with the aims and as as a on —

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