Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome

Informationen zum Autor Gary D. Farney is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark. A scholar of Roman history, he is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has published in journals such as Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Historia, and Athenaeum. Klappentext The ancient Romans are usually thought of as a monolithic ethnic group, though in fact they formed a self-consciously pluralistic society. In this book, Gary D. Farney explores how senators from Rome's Republican period celebrated and manipulated their ethnic identity to get ahead in Rome's political culture. He examines how politicians from these lands tried to advertise positive aspects of their ethnic identity, how others tried to re-create a negative identity into something positive, and how ethnic identity advertisement developed over the course of Republican history. Finally, in an epilogue, Farney addresses how the various Italic identities coalesced into a singular Italian identity in the Empire, and how Rome's experience with Italic groups informed how it perceived other groups, such as Gauls, Germans, and Greeks. Zusammenfassung Gary D. Farney explores how senators from Rome's Republican period celebrated and manipulated their ethnic identity to get ahead in Rome's political culture. He examines how they tried to advertise positive aspects of their ethnic identity and how ethnic identity advertisement developed over the course of Republican history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Duae patriae; 2. Homo Romanus natus in Latio; 3. Romanus atque Sabinus; 4. Tusci ac barbari; 5. Minicipalia illa prodigia; 6. Transferendo huc quod usquam egregium fuerit.

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• Authors: Gary D Farney, Gary D. Farney, Gary D. (Rutgers University Farney, Farney Gary D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2007
• EAN: 9780521863315
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86331-5
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity