Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.10.2013
Verlag
VDMSeitenzahl
100
Maße (L/B/H)
22.4/15.1/1.7 cm
Gewicht
165 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-639-07343-0
This book explores the nature of Roman identity
through a study of the cultural and ideological
effects of Roman citizenship on Greeks living in the
first three centuries AD. Terms such as culture and
identity are not static ideas, but constructions of a
particular social milieu at any given point in time.
Roman citizenship functioned as a kind of ideological
apparatus that, when given to a non-Roman, questioned
that individual''s native identity. Beginning from the
hypothesis that the possession of Roman citizenship
provides solid evidence that a person has at least
some ideological interest in Rome, the theoretical
bases of Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu are used
as guides in an analysis of four sources: Dionysius
of Halicarnassus, Paul of Tarsus, the jurist Ulpian,
and civic coins minted in the Greek east. These
sources answer the question ''What is a Roman?'' in
different - and often conflicting - ways, in turn
showing that modern terms such as 'Romanization'
gloss over all of the diversity within, and
plasticity of, the cultures of both the Romans and
those people whom they 'conquered'.
through a study of the cultural and ideological
effects of Roman citizenship on Greeks living in the
first three centuries AD. Terms such as culture and
identity are not static ideas, but constructions of a
particular social milieu at any given point in time.
Roman citizenship functioned as a kind of ideological
apparatus that, when given to a non-Roman, questioned
that individual''s native identity. Beginning from the
hypothesis that the possession of Roman citizenship
provides solid evidence that a person has at least
some ideological interest in Rome, the theoretical
bases of Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu are used
as guides in an analysis of four sources: Dionysius
of Halicarnassus, Paul of Tarsus, the jurist Ulpian,
and civic coins minted in the Greek east. These
sources answer the question ''What is a Roman?'' in
different - and often conflicting - ways, in turn
showing that modern terms such as 'Romanization'
gloss over all of the diversity within, and
plasticity of, the cultures of both the Romans and
those people whom they 'conquered'.
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