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Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire

By Richard Hingley

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0415351766, 9780415351768, 9780203023341
LCC
DG77 .H54 2005
Open Library ID
OL22618778M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1336578 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
224\223
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture?Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns. Inhabitants of the Roman provinces were able to develop identities they never knew they had until Rome gave them the language to express them.Hingley draws together the threads of diverse and separate study, in one sophisticated theoretical framework that spans the whole Roman Empire. Students of Rome and those with an interest in classical cultural studies will find this an invaluable mine of information.

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