| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 738 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History |
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Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History
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| Contents |
From Republic to Empire / Clifford Ando -- Making Romans in the family / Josiah Osgood -- Primary education / Marietta Horster -- Rhetorical education / Joy Connolly -- Philosophy as socio-political upbringing / Johannes Hahn -- Law and social formation in the Roman Empire / Dennis P. Kehoe -- Literature and communication / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Epigraphy and communication / Elizabeth A. Meyer -- Communicating with tablets and papyri / Andrea Jördens -- Coins and communication / Carlos F. Noreña -- Elite self-representation in Rome / Harriet I. Flower -- Public speaking in Rome : a question of auctoritas / Francisco Pina Polo -- The Second Sophistic / Thomas A. Schmitz -- Roman society in the courtroom / Leanne Bablitz -- Public entertainments / Kathleen M. Coleman -- Socializing at the baths / Garrett G. Fagan -- Roman honor / J.E. Lendon -- Friendship among the Romans / Koenraad Verboven -- Hospitality among the Romans / John Nicols -- Roman dining / Katherine M.D. Dunbabin and William J. Slater -- Violence in Roman social relations / Garrett G. Fagan -- Organized societies : collegia / Jonathan S. Perry -- The Roman army / David Potter -- Graeco-Roman cultic societies / John Scheid -- Ancient Jewish social relations / Seth Schwartz -- Christian society / Adam H. Becker -- Slaves in Roman society / Leonhard Schumacher -- Women in Roman society / Kristina Milnor -- Children in the Roman family and beyond / Jens-Uwe Krause -- Roman prostitutes and marginalization / Thomas A.J. McGinn -- Between marginality and celebrity : entertainers and entertainments in Roman society / Hartmut Leppin -- Magicians and astrologers / J.B. Rives -- The Roman bandit (latro) as criminal and outsider / Werner Riess -- Physically deformed and disabled people / Johannes Stahl |
| Summary |
The book opens with a general introduction that portrays the current state of the field, provides the background necessary for the following chapters, and then indicates some potential avenues for further study. A second introductory essay explains the chronological parameters of the handbook, and especially the importance for Roman society of the changes wrought by the shift from republic to empire. The main body of the book is divided into the following sections: (1) Mechanisms of Socialization (the family, primary education, rhetorical education, philosophical upbringing, law and social formation); (2) Mechanisms of Communication and Interaction (literature, inscriptions, papyri, coins); (3) Communal Contexts for Social Interaction (self-representation, public speaking, the Second Sophistic, courts of law, public entertainments, bathing); (4) Modes of Interpersonal Relations (honor, friendship, hospitality, dining, violence); (5) Societies within the Roman Community (collegia, the army, cultic societies, Judaism, Christianity); and (6) Marginalized Persons (slaves, women, children, prostitutes, actors and gladiators, magicians and astrologers, bandits, disabled people). The result is a unique and up-to-date survey of ancient Roman social relations."--publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social structure -- Rome
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Manners and customs
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Social conditions
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Social structure
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006770
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Rome -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peachin, Michael, 1954-
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| LC no. |
2010003812 |
| ISBN |
9780199940677 |
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0199940673 |
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9780195188004 |
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0195188004 |
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