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Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome

A compelling account of the assimilation and adaptation of Greek culture by the Romans during the middle and later Republic.

Rome
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Rome

A survey of the Roman Empire examines the battles, people, intrigues, way of life, and style of Rome, focusing on the first century BC and the personalities of Caesar, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra.

The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 882

The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome

In this revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place. The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the part of Roman policymakers to adjust to Hellenistic practices rather than to impose a system of their own.

The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 626

The Last Generation of the Roman Republic

Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the aristocracy.

Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book is an examination of the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. Acclaimed historian Erich S. Gruen discusses the introduction of and resistance to new cults, the relationship between Roman political figures and literary artists schooled in Greek, and the reaction to Hellenic philosophy and rhetoric by the Roman elite. This book contributes new and important information on the place of Greek culture in Roman public life.

The Roman Theatre and Its Audience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Roman Theatre and Its Audience

Provides a general account of the Roman theater and its audience, and records some of the results of the author's experiments in constructing a full-scale replica stage based upon the wall paintings at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and producing Roman plays upon it.

The Priapus Poems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Priapus Poems

Unmistakable by virtue of his exaggerated phallus, Priapus--one of Rome's minor fertility gods--inspired a host of epigrammatic poems that offer one of the best primary sources for the study of ancient sexuality. Despite their apparent frivolity, the Priapus poems raise basic questions of class and gender, censorship, and the nature of obscenity. The god's self-conscious indecency placed him squarely in the realm of comedy, but his role as guardian of fertility also gave him a deep religious significance. Richard Hooper's introduction explores this important duality and places the poems in their historical context. Essentially graffiti clothed in the refined forms of classical poetry, The Priapus Poems offers the reader "a trip to Coney Island in a Rolls Royce." Hooper's lively translation makes these playful poems available for the first time to the nonspecialist in an appealing, elegant, and readable version. This edition includes the original Latin texts as well as a commentary on classical references and textual problems.

Roman Imperialism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Roman Imperialism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Rome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as ‘imperialism,’ since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria (and sometimes farther east) and from the North Sea to North Africa. How and why they did this is a perennial source of scholarly controversy. Earlier debates over whether Rome was an aggressive or defensive imperial state have progressed to theoretically-informed discussions of the extent to which system-level or discursive pressures shaped the Roman Empire. Roman imperialism studies now encompass such ancillary subfields as Roman frontier studies and Romanization.

In the Shadow of the Caesars: Jewish Life in Roman Italy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

In the Shadow of the Caesars: Jewish Life in Roman Italy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The main contribution of this book is that it tries to determine how the Jews answered the challenges of Roman society. Thus, the book presents a refreshing approach to the nature of the Roman attitude toward Judaism and the Jews. In addition, it provides the first detailed examination of the demography and geography of the Jewish communities in Roman Italy. The book also offers a new look at the legal standing of the Jewish communitarian organization. Last but not least, this study also addresses the various facets of the culture of the Jews living in Roman Italy.

An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 620

An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity

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