Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome

Farney, Gary D.

ISBN 10: 0521151805 / ISBN 13: 9780521151801

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

About this Item

Farney explores how senators from Rome's Republican period manipulated their ethnic identity for political gain. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560. . 2010. Illustrated. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521151805
• ISBN 13: 9780521151801
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The ancient Romans are usually thought of as a monolithic ethnic group, though in fact they formed a self-consciously pluralistic society. In this book, Gary D. Farney explores how senators from Rome’s Republican period celebrated and manipulated their ethnic identity to get ahead in Rome’s political culture. He examines how politicians from these lands tried to advertise positive aspects of their ethnic identity, how others tried to re-create a negative identity into something positive, and how ethnic identity advertisement developed over the course of Republican history. Finally, in an epilogue, Farney addresses how the various Italic identities coalesced into a singular Italian identity in the Empire, and how Rome’s experience with Italic groups informed how it perceived other groups, such as Gauls, Germans, and Greeks.

About the Author

Gary D. Farney is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark. A scholar of Roman history, he is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has published in journals such as Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Historia, and Athenaeum.