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Rome and America : communities of strangers, spectacles of belonging
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ISBN: 1009249576 1009249622 1009249592 1009249606 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in attempts to answer the question of who We are. The wide-ranging chapters reassess both Roman antecedents and American expressions of the myth in some unexpected places: early American travelogues, westerns, bare-knuckle boxing, early American theater, government documents detailing Native American policy, and the writings of Noah Webster, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Charles Eastman. This innovative volume culminates in an interpretation of the current crisis of democracy as a reversion of the community back to Strangers, with suggestions of how the myth can recast a much-needed discussion of identity and belonging.

L'Italia romana : storie di un'identità incompiuta
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ISBN: 8842052361 9788842052364 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bari Laterza


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Aux miroirs de la ville : images et discours identitaires romains (IIIe s. avant J.-C. - IIIe s. après J.-C.)
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ISBN: 9782870312445 287031244X Year: 2007 Volume: 303 Publisher: Bruxelles : Latomus,


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Rome's cultural revolution
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ISBN: 9780521896849 0521896843 9780521721608 0521721601 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press,


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Staying Roman
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ISBN: 9780521196970 0521196973 9781139048101 9781107530720 1139048104 9781139336352 1139336355 9781139339674 1139339672 1107223598 9781107223592 1139333909 9781139333900 1280877847 9781280877841 9786613719157 6613719153 1139341251 9781139341257 1139338099 9781139338097 1107530725 113933722X Year: 2012 Volume: 82 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this study argues that the fracturing of the empire's political unity also led to a fracturing of Roman identity along political, cultural and religious lines, as individuals who continued to feel 'Roman' but who were no longer living under imperial rule sought to redefine what it was that connected them to their fellow Romans elsewhere. The resulting definitions of Romanness could overlap, but were not always mutually reinforcing. Significantly, in late antiquity Romanness had a practical value, and could be used in remarkably flexible ways to foster a sense of similarity or difference over space, time and ethnicity, in a wide variety of circumstances.


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L'homme romain : des origines au Ier siècle de notre ère : essai d'anthropologie
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ISBN: 2010029747 9782010029745 Year: 1978 Publisher: Paris Hachette

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Ni histoire de la civilisation, ni vie quotidienne à Rome, ce livre est d'abord un essai d'anthropoogie : quel fut l'homme romain ? Comment le saisir dans ses comportements publics et privés, ses appétits de domination et de bonheur, dans ses assurances comme dans ses craintes ? Comme le ferait un ethnologue, on a voulu considérer cet homme dans sa totalité vécue, en se référant aux structures fondamentales de sa pensée, de ses rituels, en réfléchissant sur ses attitudes psychologiques et sur ses réactions devant les grands problèmes de l'existence : le pouvoir, l'amour, le bonheur, la mort, les dieux. En situant toujours cet homme romain dans le déroulement de sa propre histoire on s'est efforcé d'analyser les motivations profondes de ses conduites sociales et individuelles. Au terme de telles analyses, l'homme romain apparaît comme se voulant responsable du monde où il vit. C'est avec profit que nous pouvons encore l'interroger. Par-delà les siècles, c'est un peu de notre être que nous comprendrons mieux, en le découvrant.


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Transformations of Romanness : early medieval regions and identities
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ISBN: 9783110589597 3110589591 311059756X 3110598388 Year: 2018 Volume: 71 71 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under 'barbarian' rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as 'ethnic' in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.


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Rome
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ISBN: 100925619X 9781009256223 100925622X 9781009256193 1009256203 1009256181 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's 'success' in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.


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Grieken komen van Venus, Romeinen van Mars : liefde en agressie in de klassieke oudheid
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ISBN: 9035126882 9789035126886 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam Bakker

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