Richard Hingley

Globalizing Roman Culture

Unity, Diversity and Empire

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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 st… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-134-26471-1
EAN: 9781134264711
Produktnummer: 18406857
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'567 KB
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 9 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Specialist in Roman studies, with a particular focus upon Roman imperialism and the context of Roman research. Lecturer in Roman archaeology at the University of Durham. Author of Roman Officers and English Gentleman (Routledge 2000) and Images of Rome (Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001).