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Author: Andrew Burnett Publisher: ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 200
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Ten papers examine the spread of Latin literacy across the Roman empire, based on analyses of epigraphic evidence, and consider the ways in which this reflects the process of assimilation. Contents: Latin and the epigraphic culture in Sicily; Latin on coins in the western empire; Writing Latin in the Roman province of Lusitania; Language, culture and society in north Italy and south Gaul; The survival of Oscan in Roman Pompeii; Seal-boxes and the spread of Latin literacy in the Rhine delta; Pottery stamps, coin designs and writing in late Iron Age Britain; Language and literacy in Roman Britain; Writing to the gods in Roman Britain; How the Latin West was won.
Author: Andrew Burnett Publisher: ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Ten papers examine the spread of Latin literacy across the Roman empire, based on analyses of epigraphic evidence, and consider the ways in which this reflects the process of assimilation. Contents: Latin and the epigraphic culture in Sicily; Latin on coins in the western empire; Writing Latin in the Roman province of Lusitania; Language, culture and society in north Italy and south Gaul; The survival of Oscan in Roman Pompeii; Seal-boxes and the spread of Latin literacy in the Rhine delta; Pottery stamps, coin designs and writing in late Iron Age Britain; Language and literacy in Roman Britain; Writing to the gods in Roman Britain; How the Latin West was won.
Author: Thomas N. Habinek Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400822513 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 245
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This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Seneca. He shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century b.c. to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power. It fostered a prestige dialect, for example; it appropriated the cultural resources of dominated and colonized communities; and it helped to defuse potentially explosive challenges to prevailing values and authority. Literature also drew upon and enhanced other forms of social authority, such as patriarchy, religious ritual, cultural identity, and the aristocratic procedure of self-scrutiny, or existimatio. Habinek's analysis of the relationship between language and power in classical Rome breaks from the long Romantic tradition of viewing Roman authors as world-weary figures, aloof from mundane political concerns--a view, he shows, that usually reflects how scholars have seen themselves. The Politics of Latin Literature will stimulate new interest in the historical context of Latin literature and help to integrate classical studies into ongoing debates about the sociology of writing.
Author: Ralph Haeussler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315433192 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 440
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Few empires had such an impact on the conquered peoples as did the Roman empire, creating social, economic, and cultural changes that erased long-standing differences in material culture, languages, cults, rituals and identities. But even Rome could not create a single unified culture. Individual decisions introduced changes in material culture, identity, and behavior, creating local cultures within the global world of the Roman empire that were neither Roman nor native. The author uses Northwest Italy as an exemplary case as it went from a marginal zone to one of the most flourishing and strongly urbanized regions of Italy, while developing a unique regional culture. This volume will appeal to researchers interested in the Roman Empire, as well as those interested in individual and cultural identity in the past.
Author: Jason König Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107244587 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 501
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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009383418 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
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This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History offers a generous selection of inscriptions from Roman Britain, with an accompanying map, illustrations, glossary, concordances, indexes and introductory notes on epigraphy and ancient coinage. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers.
Author: Richard Hingley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134264704 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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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.
Author: Catherine M. Chin Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812240359 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
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"To Chin, the production and use of these texts played a decisive role both in the construction of a pre-Christian classical culture and in the construction of Christianity as a religious entity bound to a religious text. In exploring themes of utopian writing, pedagogical violence, and the narration of the self, the book describes the multiple ways literary education contributed to the idea that the Roman Empire and its inhabitants were capable of converting from one culture to another, from classical to Christian. The study thus reexamines the tensions between these two idealized cultures in antiquity by suggesting that, on a literary level, they were produced simultaneously through reading and writing techniques that were common across the empire."--BOOK JACKET.
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