Romulus' asylum : Roman identities from the age of Alexander to the age of Hadrian / Emma Dench.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dench, Emma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Roman.

Ethnicity--Rome.

Ethnicity.

Group identity--Rome.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-441) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-171001-6

9786612199301

1-280-75340-4

9786610753406

0-19-151834-4

1-4237-5304-6

OCLC:

712015939