Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome

ISBN-13: 9780521863315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 358 str.

Gary D. Farney

Opis

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."

Recenzje

'Farney's effort is a fine work of scholarship constituting stimulating reading with many novel ideas and points of view. It is a most important contribution to our understanding of the history and society of the Roman Republic.' Arctos

Spis treści

1. Duae patriae; 2. Homo Romanus natus in Latio; 3. Romanus atque Sabinus; 4. Tusci ac barbari; 5. Minicipalia illa prodigia; 6. Transferendo huc quod usquam egregium fuerit.