Romulus' Asylum

Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-815051-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dench, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

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?

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Dench is Professor of Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London.