Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World

Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gardner, Andrew, editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of London Press 2013.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009784585906719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kathryn Lomas, Andrew Gardner, and Edward Herring
  • Cultural identities in Italy. Italian perspectives from Hirpinia in the period of Gracchan land reforms and the Social War / Elena Isayev
  • De-constructing ethnic identities : becoming Roman in western Cisalpine Gaul? / Ralph Häussler
  • Language and identity in ancient Italy : responses to Roman conquest / Kathryn Lomas
  • Trading identities? Regionalism and commerce in Mid-Republican Italy (third-early second century BC) / Roman Roth
  • Cultural identities in the provinces. Encountering Carthage : Mid-Republican Rome and Mediterranean culture / Andrew Erskine
  • Roman Bathhouses on Crete as indicators of cultural transition : the dynamics of Roman influence / Amanda Kelly
  • The Romanization of Petra / Matthew Peacock
  • Continuity and change in Lebanese temples / Kevin Butcher
  • Dissing the Egyptians : legal, ethnic, and cultural identities in Roman Egypt / Jane Rowlandson
  • Becoming X-group : ethnicity in North-East Africa / Rachael J. Dann.