ISBN:
9781280753404
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 441 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
MyiLibrary
Parallel Title:
Print version Romulus' Asylum : Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dench, Emma Romulus' asylum
DDC:
937
Keywords:
Ethnicity
;
National characteristics, Roman
;
Group identity
;
Römisches Reich
;
Nationalbewusstsein
Abstract:
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 bl
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Abbreviations; 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?; Bibliography; General Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-441) and index
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198150510.001.0001
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