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    612-822-4611

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Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian

Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian

Dench, Emma

Hardcover

Ancient RomeGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0198150512
ISBN13: 9780198150510
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 18 2005
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.59
Language: English
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.

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