Carlos F Noreña
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos F Noreña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos F |
| FAMILY NAME | Noreña |
| SIGNATURE | NOREÑA C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Antioch on the Orontes: History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic conquest and beyond. This volume offers an archaeological and historical overview of Antioch from its origins through late antiquity. Drawing on a vast body of modern research, it explo…
Antioch as a Provincial Capital
This chapter explores the superimposition of Roman law and order on provincial and municipal politics.
The Problem(s) of Empire
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It has been in continuous operation since 1586, making it the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press (1534). From its imposing complex in Jericho, the stylish suburb of Oxford, and its many satellite offices around the world, including Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Karachi, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Melbourne, Toronto and New York — the o…
Pline le Jeune, Lettres. Tome IV. Livre X. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par Hubert Zehnacker et Nicole Méthy
Emperors, Benefaction and Honorific Practice in the Roman Imperial Greek Polis
This chapter investigates the dynamics of material and symbolic exchange between Roman emperors and Greek cities, and the role of the emperor in the ideology and practice of civic euergetism in the Greek East, in the middle Roman empire (c. 98–180 CE). It begins by documenting the absence of demonstrable correlations between (1) an imperial visit and an imperial benefaction to a city and (2) an imperial visit and the erection of an honorific stat…
Caillan Davenport. A History of the Roman Equestrian Order
For most of its millennium-long history, ancient Rome was characterized by a steep and stratified sociopolitical order, articulated both by formal designations of juridical rank and by informal markers of social status. The equestrian order provides one key to understanding how this complex hierarchy actually worked. As a second-tier aristocratic stratum, it occupied the fulcrum between the senatorial aristocracy, which sat at the apex of Roman s…
A Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity
Written by an expert team of scholars this first volume examines war and resistance, different engines of economic performance and social and geographical mobility in the Mediterranean, slavery and social control, lived experience and the imperial discourses of race and identity, and the geographical and ecological settings in which the cultural histories of the Roman world played out. Together these chapters offer a bold new account of the Roman…
From document to history: Epigraphic insights into the Greco-Roman world
In From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World, editors Carlos Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas gather together an exciting set of original studies on Greek and Roman epigraphy, first presented at the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Berkeley 2016). Chapters range chronologically from the sixth century BCE to the fifth century CE, and geographically from Egypt and Asia Minor to the west Eur…
Nero’s Imperial Administration
Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire by Clifford Ando
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 421 is capable of great precision (e.g., Theb. 8.607: “women’s quarter” for thalami of Antigone and Ismene’s chambers, an expressive translation distinguishing a specific usage of the word and glancing at the mention of paryenTMnaw in Eur. Phoen. 1275). The commentary, about 300 pages long, is a sort of opus perpetuum that examines the text line by line. Augoustakis chooses to divide the text into long lemmata, each co…
Emanuel Mayer. The Ancient Middle Classes: Urban Life and Aesthetics in the Roman Empire, 100 BCE–250 CE
There are two ways to read Emanuel Mayer's provocative book on Roman imperial society and culture. The first is as an interlinked set of observations on the economic and cultural profile of what he identifies as the urban middle class(es) in the Roman Empire. The second is as a sustained argument for the rise in the first centuries b.c.e. and c.e. of a middle class “in the straightforward economic sense” (p. 52). Some of Mayer's main conclusions …
Self-fashioning in the Panegyricus
Implicit in any formal speech in praise of a ruler is the putative authority of the speaker. To extol the ruler's background and lineage properly, to characterize his virtues in appropriate terms, to celebrate his accomplishments in convincing detail and to place them in the most impressive contexts – to offer a public verdict, in a word, on the legitimacy of the ruler's power – is not for everyone to do, and indeed stands as an ambitious asserti…
Pliny's Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World
Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor. It is an important document in the development of the ideals of imperial leadership, but it also contributes greatly to our underst…
Divorce in Classical Athenian Society: Law, Practice and Power
The practice of divorce in classical Athens sheds light on relationships which are fundamental to our understanding of Athenian society: between husband and wife, between separate households, and between household and state. The power which informs these relationships, as illuminated by divorce, can be measured not only in juridical terms, but in social and economic terms as well. The main primary sources for the study of divorce in classical Ath…
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (review)
Reviewed by: Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier Carlos F. Noreña Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors. By Charles S. Maier. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. These are good times for historians of the Roman empire. Often anxious about our relevance in the modern world, today we can revel in the attention, popular and scholarly, showered on our field. For just as m…
The Social Economy of Pliny's Correspondence with Trajan
Though the primary function of Pliny's correspondence with Trajan was the transaction of imperial business, these letters could also serve as vehicles for the self-representation and public image of both correspondents. What made these letters mutually beneficial to Pliny and Trajan is the impression that emerges from them, artfully constructed, of a personal friendship between senator and emperor. Because Pliny and Trajan both benefited from bei…
Medium and Message in Vespasian's Templum Pacis
The Communication of the Emperor's Virtues
The Roman emperor served a number of functions within the Roman state. The emperor's public image reflected this diversity. Triumphal processions and imposing state monuments such as Trajan's Column or the Arch of Septimius Severus celebrated the military exploits and martial glory of the emperor. Distributions of grain and coin, public buildings, and spectacle entertainments in the city of Rome all advertised the emperor's patronage of the urban…
The Communication of the Emperor's Virtues
The Roman emperor served a number of functions within the Roman state. The emperor's public image reflected this diversity. Triumphal processions and imposing state monuments such as Trajan's Column or the Arch of Septimius Severus celebrated the military exploits and martial glory of the emperor. Distributions of grain and coin, public buildings, and spectacle entertainments in the city of Rome all advertised the emperor's patronage of the urban…
The Social Economy of Pliny's Correspondence with Trajan
Though the primary function of Pliny's correspondence with Trajan was the transaction of imperial business, these letters could also serve as vehicles for the self-representation and public image of both correspondents. What made these letters mutually beneficial to Pliny and Trajan is the impression that emerges from them, artfully constructed, of a personal friendship between senator and emperor. Because Pliny and Trajan both benefited from bei…
Medium and Message in Vespasian's Templum Pacis
The Problem(s) of Empire
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It has been in continuous operation since 1586, making it the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press (1534). From its imposing complex in Jericho, the stylish suburb of Oxford, and its many satellite offices around the world, including Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Karachi, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Melbourne, Toronto and New York — the o…
The Communication of the Emperor's Virtues
The Roman emperor served a number of functions within the Roman state. The emperor's public image reflected this diversity. Triumphal processions and imposing state monuments such as Trajan's Column or the Arch of Septimius Severus celebrated the military exploits and martial glory of the emperor. Distributions of grain and coin, public buildings, and spectacle entertainments in the city of Rome all advertised the emperor's patronage of the urban…
Medium and Message in Vespasian's Templum Pacis
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (review)
Reviewed by: Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier Carlos F. Noreña Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors. By Charles S. Maier. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. These are good times for historians of the Roman empire. Often anxious about our relevance in the modern world, today we can revel in the attention, popular and scholarly, showered on our field. For just as m…
The Social Economy of Pliny's Correspondence with Trajan
Though the primary function of Pliny's correspondence with Trajan was the transaction of imperial business, these letters could also serve as vehicles for the self-representation and public image of both correspondents. What made these letters mutually beneficial to Pliny and Trajan is the impression that emerges from them, artfully constructed, of a personal friendship between senator and emperor. Because Pliny and Trajan both benefited from bei…
Divorce in Classical Athenian Society: Law, Practice and Power
The practice of divorce in classical Athens sheds light on relationships which are fundamental to our understanding of Athenian society: between husband and wife, between separate households, and between household and state. The power which informs these relationships, as illuminated by divorce, can be measured not only in juridical terms, but in social and economic terms as well. The main primary sources for the study of divorce in classical Ath…
Self-fashioning in the Panegyricus
Implicit in any formal speech in praise of a ruler is the putative authority of the speaker. To extol the ruler's background and lineage properly, to characterize his virtues in appropriate terms, to celebrate his accomplishments in convincing detail and to place them in the most impressive contexts – to offer a public verdict, in a word, on the legitimacy of the ruler's power – is not for everyone to do, and indeed stands as an ambitious asserti…
Pliny's Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World
Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor. It is an important document in the development of the ideals of imperial leadership, but it also contributes greatly to our underst…
Emanuel Mayer. The Ancient Middle Classes: Urban Life and Aesthetics in the Roman Empire, 100 BCE–250 CE
There are two ways to read Emanuel Mayer's provocative book on Roman imperial society and culture. The first is as an interlinked set of observations on the economic and cultural profile of what he identifies as the urban middle class(es) in the Roman Empire. The second is as a sustained argument for the rise in the first centuries b.c.e. and c.e. of a middle class “in the straightforward economic sense” (p. 52). Some of Mayer's main conclusions …
Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire by Clifford Ando
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 421 is capable of great precision (e.g., Theb. 8.607: “women’s quarter” for thalami of Antigone and Ismene’s chambers, an expressive translation distinguishing a specific usage of the word and glancing at the mention of paryenTMnaw in Eur. Phoen. 1275). The commentary, about 300 pages long, is a sort of opus perpetuum that examines the text line by line. Augoustakis chooses to divide the text into long lemmata, each co…
Nero’s Imperial Administration
A Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity
Written by an expert team of scholars this first volume examines war and resistance, different engines of economic performance and social and geographical mobility in the Mediterranean, slavery and social control, lived experience and the imperial discourses of race and identity, and the geographical and ecological settings in which the cultural histories of the Roman world played out. Together these chapters offer a bold new account of the Roman…
From document to history: Epigraphic insights into the Greco-Roman world
In From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World, editors Carlos Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas gather together an exciting set of original studies on Greek and Roman epigraphy, first presented at the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Berkeley 2016). Chapters range chronologically from the sixth century BCE to the fifth century CE, and geographically from Egypt and Asia Minor to the west Eur…
Caillan Davenport. A History of the Roman Equestrian Order
For most of its millennium-long history, ancient Rome was characterized by a steep and stratified sociopolitical order, articulated both by formal designations of juridical rank and by informal markers of social status. The equestrian order provides one key to understanding how this complex hierarchy actually worked. As a second-tier aristocratic stratum, it occupied the fulcrum between the senatorial aristocracy, which sat at the apex of Roman s…
Emperors, Benefaction and Honorific Practice in the Roman Imperial Greek Polis
This chapter investigates the dynamics of material and symbolic exchange between Roman emperors and Greek cities, and the role of the emperor in the ideology and practice of civic euergetism in the Greek East, in the middle Roman empire (c. 98–180 CE). It begins by documenting the absence of demonstrable correlations between (1) an imperial visit and an imperial benefaction to a city and (2) an imperial visit and the erection of an honorific stat…
Pline le Jeune, Lettres. Tome IV. Livre X. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par Hubert Zehnacker et Nicole Méthy
Antioch on the Orontes: History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic conquest and beyond. This volume offers an archaeological and historical overview of Antioch from its origins through late antiquity. Drawing on a vast body of modern research, it explo…
Antioch as a Provincial Capital
This chapter explores the superimposition of Roman law and order on provincial and municipal politics.
The Problem(s) of Empire
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It has been in continuous operation since 1586, making it the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press (1534). From its imposing complex in Jericho, the stylish suburb of Oxford, and its many satellite offices around the world, including Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Karachi, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Melbourne, Toronto and New York — the o…
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