Rome's Cultural Revolution
- Author: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, British School at Rome
- Date Published: November 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521721608
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The period of Rome's imperial expansion, the late Republic and early Empire, saw transformations of its society, culture and identity. Drawing equally on archaeological and literary evidence, this book offers an original and provocative interpretation of these changes. Moving from recent debates about colonialism and cultural identity, both in the Roman world and more broadly, and challenging the traditional picture of 'Romanization' and 'Hellenization', it offers instead a model of overlapping cultural identities in dialogue with one another. It attributes a central role to cultural change in the process of redefinition of Roman identity, represented politically by the crisis of the Republican system and the establishment of the new Augustan order. Whether or not it is right to see these changes as 'revolutionary', they involve a profound transformation of Roman life and identity, one that lies at the heart of understanding the nature of the Roman Empire.
Read more- A major scholar offers an original and bold new interpretation of the transformation of late Republican Rome and the origins of the Augustan Empire
- Makes use of comparative materials from other fields of cultural studies
- Richly illustrated, to aid understanding of the discussion of archaeological sites and artefacts
Awards
- Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Reviews & endorsements
'A brilliant analysis of cultural change, by a historian with an unrivalled mastery of both the literary and the archaeological evidence.' Peter Wiseman, University of Exeter
See more reviews'Rome's Cultural Revolution uses the author's deep knowledge of Italy and his involvement with excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum to bring together the material evidence for changes in taste and lifestyle with the literary evidence. The result is a brilliant new analysis of the cultural and social history, not only of later Republican Rome, but of its wider Italian setting.' Fergus Millar, University of Oxford
'This is a profound and challenging new look at a decisive period (ca.200 BC to AD 200) in Roman history, the product of years of close study and analysis.' Contemporary Review
'Wallace-Hadrill does not waste words. His writing is at all times persuasive and readable.' David J. Newsome, Rosetta
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- Date Published: November 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521721608
- length: 546 pages
- dimensions: 245 x 175 x 25 mm
- weight: 1.1kg
- contains: 112 b/w illus. 40 colour illus. 15 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Cultures and Identities:
1. Culture, power and identity
2. Dress, language and identity
Part II. Building Identities:
3. Roman Italy: between Roman, Greek and local
4. Vitruvius: building Roman identity
Part III. Knowledge and Power:
5. Knowing the ancestors
6. Knowing the city
Part IV. The Consumer Revolution:
7. Luxury and the consumer revolution
8. Waves of fashion
Epilogue: a cultural revolution?
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