02215nam 22003973 450 991091049120332120241125084505.09780520413153(electronic bk.)9780520413146(MiAaPQ)EBC31653405(Au-PeEL)EBL31653405(CKB)36649413400041(EXLCZ)993664941340004120241125d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity1st ed.Berkeley :University of California Press,2025.©2025.1 online resource (193 pages)Sather Classical Lectures ;v.77Print version: Gowers, Emily The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity Berkeley : University of California Press,c2025 9780520413146 A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral in fact took up immense imaginative space. It was often through the small stuff that the Romans most acutely probed and challenged their society's overarching values and priorities and its sense of proportion and justice. There is much to learn from what didn't or shouldn't matter. By marking the spots where the apparently pointless becomes significant, this book radically adjusts our understanding of the Romans and their world, as well as our own minor feelings and intimate preoccupations.Sather Classical Lectures745.59280937Gowers Emily541024MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910910491203321The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity4296110UNINA