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The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology

The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology

Hardcover

Series: W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures

Ancient RomeGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521856922
ISBN13: 9780521856928
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 9 2006
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The gens or 'clan', a key social formation in archaic Rome, has given rise to considerable interpretative problems for modern scholarship. In this comprehensive exploration of the subject, C.J. Smith examines the mismatch between the ancient evidence and modern interpretative models influenced by social anthropology and political theory. He offers a detailed comparison of the gens with the Attic genos and illustrates, for the first time, how recent changes in the way we understand the genos may impact upon our understanding of Roman history. This significant work makes an important contribution not only to the study of archaic Rome, but also to the history of ideas.

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