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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813741003321

Titolo

Cultural identity in the Roman Empire / / editors, Ray Laurence, Joanne Berry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-77850-3

1-134-77851-1

1-280-33353-7

0-203-02266-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

LaurenceRay <1963->

BerryJoanne <1971->

Disciplina

303.48/2

303.4820937

306.0937

Soggetti

Acculturation - Rome

Romans - Cultural assimilation

Citizenship - Rome

Rome Cultural policy Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Cohors: the governor and his entourage in the self-image of the Roman Republic; Punic persistence: colonialism and cultural identities in Roman Sardinia; Constructing the self and the other in Cyrenaica; Roman imperialism and the city in Italy; Landscape and cultural identity in Roman Britain; Territory, ethnonyms and geography: the construction of identity in Roman Italy; Romancing the Celts: a segmentary approach to acculturation

A spirit of improvement? marble and the culture of Roman Britain; Material culture and Roman identity: the spatial layout of Pompeian houses and the problem of ethnicity; Negotiating identity and status: the gladiators of Roman Nmes; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to challenge our basic assumptions of Romanization and how parts of Europe became incorporated into a Roman culture.Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire breaks new ground, arguing that the idea of a unified and easily defined Roman culture.