Slaves to Rome

Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19928147
AutoresMyles Lavan (0000-0001-8290-7893, University of St Andrews, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Fecha de publicación2013-02-14
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaSlaves to Rome (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139199025
OpenAlexW2241323262
Open LibraryOL34557068M
ISBN9781139199025
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas61

This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their authority over, and responsibilities to, the subject population of the provinces. It traces the relative importance of these different models for the imperial project across almost three centuries of Latin literature, from the middle of the first century BCE to the beginning of the third century CE

Ancient history · Art · CONQUEST · Empire · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Order (exchange) · Perspective (graphical) · Population · Roman Empire · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Visual arts · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Classics · Demography · History · Philosophy · ancient · Ancient Rhetoric · Elite (Social sciences) · History and criticism · Imperialism in literature · Language and culture · Latin language · Latin literature · Political aspects · politics and government · Rhetoric, Ancient · Rome · Slavery in literature · Slaves