ISBN:
0203022661
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9780203022665
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9780415135948
,
041513594X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 205 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cultural identity in the Roman Empire
DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
Acculturation Rome
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Romans Sources
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Cultural assimilation
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Citizenship Rome
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Acculturation Rome
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Roman Acculturation
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Sources
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Citoyenneté Rome
;
Acculturation
;
Romans Sources Cultural assimilation
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Citizenship
;
Romans Cultural assimilation
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Cultural policy ; Historiography
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
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Citizenship
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Acculturation
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Sources
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Electronic books
;
Rome Cultural policy
;
Historiography
;
Rome Politique culturelle
;
Historiographie
;
Rome (Empire)
;
Rome Cultural policy
;
Historiography
;
Rome (Empire)
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books Sources
;
Quelle
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Quelle
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Cohors: the governor and his entourage in the self-image of the Roman Republic /David Braund --Punic persistence: colonialism and cultural identities in Roman Sardinia /Peter van Dommelen --Constructing the self and the other in Cyrenaica /Eireann Marshall --Roman imperialism and the city in Italy /Kathryn Lomas --Landscape and cultural identity in Roman Britain /David Petts --Territory, ethnonyms and geography: the construction of identity in Roman Italy /Ray Laurence --Romancing the Celts: a segmentary approach to acculturation /Alex Woolf --Spirit of improvement? marble and the culture of Roman Britain /Raphael M.J. Isserlin --Material culture and Roman identity: the spatial layout of Pompeian houses and the problem of ethnicity /Mark Grahame --Negotiating identity and status: the gladiators of Roman Nimes /Valerie M. Hope.
Abstract:
This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to challenge our basic assumptions of Romanization and how parts of Europe became incorporated into a Roman culture.Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire breaks new ground, arguing that the idea of a unified and easily defined Roman cultu
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-195) and index. - Description based on print version record
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