Monumenta tra celebrazione bellica e commemorazione aretalogica. I temi tropaici come elementi del paesaggio di memoria

The PRIN 2020 Space and Memory Project unit based at Cassino University aims at investigating the creation and strategic placement of monuments commemorating victories and Roman rule, and at the same time at tracing the spread of the same celebratory and aretalogical themes in the private sphere during the late Republic and the early Empire. The research unit will define and describe the morphology of the phenomenon in its various aspects, in a diachronic perspective that takes into account the progressive constitution of repositories of forms and corresponding meanings – as well as the subsequent disintegration of the newly established system – but also through an overall reflection on the role of this phenomenon in the historical and cultural context of Italy at the turn from Republic to Empire.