Romulus Asylum

Author : Emma Dench
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198150512
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romulus' Asylum written by Emma Dench and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who did the Romans think they were? They were a people scattered round the ancient Mediterranean world, yet they imagined a common identity for themselves, particularly through shared myths and history. This book shows how ancient means of constructing identity compare with modern means, especially that of `race'.

Author : Emma Dench
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191518344
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romulus' Asylum written by Emma Dench and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern treatments of Rome have projected in highly emotive terms the perceived problems, or the aspirations, of the present: 'race-mixture' has been blamed for the collapse of the Roman empire; more recently, Rome and Roman society have been depicted as 'multicultural'. Moving beyond these and beyond more traditional, juridical approaches to Roman identity, Emma Dench focuses on ancient modes of thinking about selves and relationships with other peoples, including descent-myths, history, and ethnographies. She explores the relative importance of sometimes closely interconnected categories of blood descent, language, culture and clothes, and territoriality. Rome's creation of a distinctive imperial shape is understood in the context of the broader ancient Mediterranean world within which the Romans self-consciously situated themselves, and whose modes of thought they appropriated and transformed.

Author : James Biser Whisker
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599426161
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum and Sanctuary in History and Law written by James Biser Whisker and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history and evolution of sanctuary and asylum as a legal concept including treaties, laws, and court rulings by major geographic areas around the world, influences of Hebrew [Old Testament], classical sanctuary theory and practices, the Koran, and other Islamic-Arab regional accords and conventions. The authors' approach is well cited and suitable for those who want a good starting point for further study. Included in the book are chapters on the following topics: Sanctuary and Asylum, Jewish View of Asylum, Asylum History, Asylum in France, Asylum: History, Asylum in France, Asylum in Great Britain, Asylum in Germany, Asylum: Islamic Law, Asylum in International Treaties, Asylum in International Relations, Asylum in the United States, Asylum in the European Community, Asylum in Latin America, Asylum in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Alberico Gentili
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199600511
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De Armis Romanis written by Alberico Gentili and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A project of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law"

Author : Beatrice Poletti
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793655073
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dionysius and the City of Rome written by Beatrice Poletti and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Dionysius of Halicarnassus' description of Rome's 'founders' and situates Dionysius' historical work in the cultural and political contexts of Augustan Rome. Beatrice Poletti examines Dionysius' methods and engagement with his sources to illustrate the significance of his work in his contemporary intellectual milieu.

Author : Giovanni Casadio
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527569861
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artemis and Diana in Ancient Greece and Italy written by Giovanni Casadio and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of studies about the Greek and Roman goddesses—Artemis and Diana—who ruled creatures of the wild. Although they arose separately in Greek and Roman cultures, they were often treated as equivalent. These goddesses had the power of giving birth, health and death. Diana’s temples were built at places where three roads meet, writes Servius (ad Aen. IV.511), outside the city itself, and so they were common, safe meeting places which belonged to no one but were the sites for federal councils, hosted by the goddess. Artemis was associated in particular with bears, and Diana with deer, but both were generally associated with wild animals, as well as with the different phases of life. This volume will be useful not only for researchers on this subject, but also for courses in Greek and Roman studies, mythology, history, and women’s studies.

Author : Joy Connolly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691162255
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Speech written by Joy Connolly and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.

Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198723687
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Alexandra' attributed to Lykophron is a notoriously difficult poem but one that sheds crucial light on Greek religion, foundation myths, and myths of colonial identity. This book asserts its importance as a strongly political and historical document, and argues that the probable decade of its composition was a turning-point in Roman history.

Author : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Journal of Philology written by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."

Author : Katell Berthelot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691220425
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and Their Roman Rivals written by Katell Berthelot and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals shows how the Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Josephus, and the Palestinian rabbis, who both resisted and internalized Roman standards and imperial ideology. Katell Berthelot traces how, long before the empire became Christian, Jews came to perceive Israel and Rome as rivals competing for supremacy. Both considered their laws to be the most perfect ever written, and both believed they were a most pious people who had been entrusted with a divine mission to bring order and peace to the world. Berthelot argues that the rabbinic identification of Rome with Esau, Israel's twin brother, reflected this sense of rivalry. She discusses how this challenge transformed ancient Jewish ideas about military power and the use of force, law and jurisdiction, and membership in the people of Israel. Berthelot argues that Jewish thinkers imitated the Romans in some cases and proposed competing models in others. Shedding new light on Jewish thought in antiquity, Jews and Their Roman Rivals reveals how Jewish encounters with pagan Rome gave rise to crucial evolutions in the ways Jews conceptualized the Torah and conversion to Judaism.