ROMULUS' ASYLUM: ROMAN IDENTITIES FROM THE AGE OF ALEXANDER TO THE AGE OF HADRIAN

Dench, Emma

ISBN 10: 0198150512 / ISBN 13: 9780198150510

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2005

About this Item

Octavo, vii, viii, xi, 441 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial cream, gray and blue with black and blue lettering. Exterior has mild wear including light soiling, faint age toning and minor edge wear. Boards have very light wear. Text block has slight wear including extremely light edge wear. Frontispiece. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #4. 1398048. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROMULUS' ASYLUM: ROMAN IDENTITIES FROM THE AGE OF ALEXANDER TO THE AGE OF HADRIAN
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198150512
• ISBN 13: 9780198150510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History & Classical Studies

About this title

Synopsis

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 blood descent, language, culture and clothes, and territoriality. Rome's creation of a distinctive imperial shape is understood in the context of the broader ancient Mediterranean world within which the Romans self-consciously situated themselves, and whose modes of thought they appropriated and transformed.

About the Author

Emma Dench is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London.