The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies

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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new and exciting links between the various sub-disciplines that make up Roman Studies - for example, between literature and epigraphy, art and philosophy, papyrology and economic history. The Handbook, in fact, aims to establish a field and scholarly practice as much as to describe the current state of play. Connections with disciplines outside classics are also explored, including anthropology, psychoanalysis, gender and reception studies, and the use of new media. This book contains papers by more than fifty scholars who elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman Empire. The emphasis is particularly upon the new and exciting links between the various sub-disciplines that make up Roman Studies – for example, between literature and epigraphy, art and philosophy, papyrology and economic history. Connections with disciplines outside classics are also explored, including anthropology, psychoanalysis, gender and reception studies, and the use of new media. Introduction, Alessandro Barchiesi & Walter Scheidel 1:New media (and old), James O'Donnell Tools 2:Transmission and textual criticism, Mario De Nonno 3:Iconography, C. Brian Rose 4:Linguistics, Joshua Katz 5:Archaeology, Henry Hurst 6:Epigraphy, John Bodel 7:Papyrology, Roger Bagnall 8:Numismatics, William Metcalf 9:Prosopography, Werner Eck 10:Metre, Llewelyn Morgan 11:Literary theory, Joseph Farrell 12:Translation, Susanna Braund Approaches 13:Style, Alfonso Traina 14:Gender studies, Anthony Corbeill 15:Culture-based approaches, Matthew Roller 16:Anthropology, Maurizio Bettini 17:Identity, Emma Dench 18:Performance, Michele Lowrie 19:Psychoanalysis and the Roman imaginary, Ellen Oliensis 20:Art and representation, Eugenio La Rocca 21:Reception studies, Andrew Laird 22:Historicism and formalism, Stephen Hinds Genres 23:Rhetoric, Andrew Riggsby 24:Historiography and biography, Christina Kraus 25:Epic, Philip Hardie 26:First-person poetry, Kathleen McCarthy 27:Theatre, Florence Dupont 28:Letters, Jennifer Ebbeler 29:Novels, Ellen Finkelpearl 30:Scholarship, Robert Kaster History 31:Early Rome, Nicola Terrenato 32:The imperial republic, Harriet Flower 33:The early imperial monarchy, Carlos Noreña 34:The late empire, Richard Lim 35:Power, William Harris 36:Urbanism, Nicholas Purcell 37:Economy and quality of life, Walter Scheidel 38:Family and society, Beryl Rawson 39:Freedom and slavery, Keith Bradley 40:Law, Jill Harries 41:Spectacle, Kathleen Coleman 42:Imperial ecumene and polyethnicity, Peter Bang 43:After antiquity, Clifford Ando Ideas 44:Philosophy, David Sedley 45:Political theory, Joy Connolly 46:Hellenism, Tim Whitmarsh 47:Religious pluralism, Jörg Rüpke 48:Judaism, Seth Schwartz 49:Christianity, Hagith Sivan 50:Sexuality, Rebecca Flemming 51:Women, Kristina Milnor 52:Space and geography, Kai Brodersen 53:Architecture, Edmund Thomas 54:Science, Paul Keyser 55:Time and calendar, Denis Feeney