Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities From The Age Of Alexander To The Age Of Hadrian - Couverture rigide

Dench, Emma

 
9780198150510: Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities From The Age Of Alexander To The Age Of Hadrian
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ISBN 10 : 0198150512 ISBN 13 : 9780198150510
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Modern treatments of Rome have projected in highly emotive terms the perceived problems, or the aspirations, of the present: 'race-mixture' has been blamed for the collapse of the Roman empire; more recently, Rome and Roman society have been depicted as 'multicultural'. Moving beyond these and beyond more traditional, juridical approaches to Roman identity, Emma Dench focuses on ancient modes of thinking about selves and relationships with other peoples, including descent-myths, history, and ethnographies. She explores the relative importance of sometimes closely interconnected categories of blood descent, language, culture and clothes, and territoriality. Rome's creation of a distinctive imperial shape is understood in the context of the broader ancient Mediterranean world within which the Romans self-consciously situated themselves, and whose modes of thought they appropriated and transformed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Emma Dench is Professor of Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198150512
ISBN 13 
9780198150510
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
456
Coordonnées du fabricant
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