Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers

Noy, David

ISBN 10: 0715629522 / ISBN 13: 9780715629529

Published by The Classical Press of Wales, 2000

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Fine copy in complete dustwrapper, faded at spine. Owner name.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers
• Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715629522
• ISBN 13: 9780715629529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

'The Tiber has been joined by the Orontes'. So wrote the Roman satirist Juvenal, in a complaint about immigration to the Empire's capital. Rome was constantly sustained by immigrants. Some were voluntary - craftworkers, soldiers, teachers and intellectuals. Countless others came as slaves. What happened to them after arrival? Did they try to keep contact with their homelands? Did they form distinctive communities within Rome? This book is the first comprehensive study of Rome's foreign-born element. The author uses inscriptions and literature to explore the experiences of newcomers to the capital. The results are compared with the colourful Roman stereotypes of different immigrant groups.

About the Author

David Noy is author of Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe vols. 1-2, and co-author with William Horbury of Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt.