LEADER 02215nam 22003973 450 001 9910910491203321 005 20241125084505.0 010 $a9780520413153$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9780520413146 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31653405 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31653405 035 $a(CKB)36649413400041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936649413400041 100 $a20241125d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (193 pages) 225 1 $aSather Classical Lectures ;$vv.77 311 08$aPrint version: Gowers, Emily The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity Berkeley : University of California Press,c2025 9780520413146 330 $aA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral in fact took up immense imaginative space. It was often through the small stuff that the Romans most acutely probed and challenged their society's overarching values and priorities and its sense of proportion and justice. There is much to learn from what didn't or shouldn't matter. By marking the spots where the apparently pointless becomes significant, this book radically adjusts our understanding of the Romans and their world, as well as our own minor feelings and intimate preoccupations. 410 0$aSather Classical Lectures 676 $a745.59280937 700 $aGowers$b Emily$0541024 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910910491203321 996 $aThe Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity$94296110 997 $aUNINA