Romulus'' Asylum - Roman Identities From the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian

Zusatztext Romulus' Asylum contains many sharp observations Informationen zum Autor Emma Dench is Professor of Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Who did the Romans think they were? They were a people scattered round the ancient Mediterranean world, yet they imagined a common identity for themselves, particularly through shared myths and history. This book shows how ancient means of constructing identity compare with modern means, especially that of `race'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Roman Ethnographies 2: Romulus' Asylum: The Character of the Roman Citizenship 3: The Idea of Italy 4: Flesh and Blood 5: Languages and Literatures Epilogue: Closure?

Product details

• Authors: Emma Dench, Emma (Professor of Ancient History Dench, Dench Emma
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2005
• EAN: 9780198150510
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815051-0
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Physical anthropology