Romulus' asylum [[electronic resource] ] : Roman identities from the age of Alexander to the age of Hadrian / / Emma Dench

• Autore: Dench Emma
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (458 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800945/632
• Soggetto topico: National characteristics, Roman; Ethnicity - Rome; Group identity - Rome
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-441) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Roman Ethnographies; 2. Romulus' Asylum: The Character of the Roman Citizenship; 3. The Idea of Italy; 4. Flesh and Blood; 5. Languages and Literatures; Epilogue: Closure?; Bibliography; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 bl
• Titolo autorizzato: Romulus' asylum
• ISBN: 0-19-171001-6; 9786612199301; 1-280-75340-4; 9786610753406; 0-19-151834-4; 1-4237-5304-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996209835303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno