ISBN:
9780367424411
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9781032078809
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvii, 292 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Routledge monographs in classical studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Courrier, Cyril Ancient History from Below
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ancient history from below
DDC:
306.09/012
Keywords:
Social history Congresses To 500
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History, Ancient Congresses
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Marginality, Social Congresses History
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Poor Congresses History To 1500
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Social classes Congresses History To 1500
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Ancient history from below : an introduction / Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira and Cyril Courrier -- Who is below? Subaltern conditions, languages and communities -- Subaltern community formation in antiquity : some methodological reflections / Kostas Vlassopoulos -- Southern Gaul from below ; the limits and possibilities of epigraphic documentation / Cyril Courrier and Nicolas Tran -- Experiences of poverty, dependency and work --.Poverty, debt, and dependent labour in the ancient Greek world : thinking through some issues in doing ancient history from below / Claire Taylor -- Destitute, homeless and (almost) invisible : urban poverty and the rental market in the Roman world / Cristina Rosillo-López -- Roman agriculture from above and below : words and things / Kim Bowes --
Abstract:
Gender, ethnicity and subalternity -- Hellenicity from below : subalternity and ethnicity in classical Greece and beyond / Gabriel Zuchtriegel -- Subaltern masculinities : Pompeian graffiti and excluded memories in the early Principate / Renata Senna Garraffon -- Politics from below : subaltern agency and collective action -- Metics, slaves and citizens in classical Athens : rethinking the polis from below / Fábio Augusto Morales -- What is below? The case of the Athenian riot of 508/7 BC / Alex Gottesman -- Slave agency in Livy's history of Rome : between rebellion and counterconspiracy / Fábio Duarte Joly -- The crowd in late antiquity : problems and possibilities of an inquiry / Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira -- Epilogue -- Agency, past, present and future / Pedro Paulo A. Funari.
Abstract:
"If Ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history - 'from below'- is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it. Despite undeniable advances in recent decades, 'our slowness to reconstruct plausible visions of almost any aspect of society beyond the top-most strata of wealth, power or status' (as Nicholas Purcell has put it) remains a persistent feature of the field. Therefore, this book concerns a historical field and social groups that are still today neglected by modern scholarship. However, writing ancient history 'from below' means much more than taking into account the anonymous masses, the subaltern classes, the non-elites. Our task is also, in the felicitous expression coined by Walter Benjamin, 'to brush history against the grain,' to rescue the viewpoint of the subordinated, the traditions of the oppressed. In other words, we should understand the bulk of ancient populations in light of their own experience and their own reactions to that experience. But, how do we do such a history? What sources can we use? What methods and approaches can we employ? What concepts are required to this endeavour? The contributions mainly engage with questions of theory and methodology, but they also constitute inspiring case-studies in their own right, ranging from classical Greece to the late antique world. This book is aimed not only at readers working on classical Greece, republican and imperial Rome and late antiquity, but to anyone interested in 'bottom-up' history, and social and population history in general. Although the book is primarily intended for scholars, it will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate students of history, archaeology, and classical studies"--
Note:
"Most of the chapters gathered in this volume have their origin as papers delivered at the international conference "Ancient History from Below: Possibilities and Challenges" held at the University of São Paulo in March 2018" - Acknowledgements
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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