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Romulus' Asylum

By Emma Dench

Romulus' Asylum

By Emma Dench

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
456
Release Date:
2005-08-18
Publication Date:
2005-06-16
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198150512
ISBN13:
9780198150510
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
1
Maximum Reading Age:
110
Weight:
770 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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