The Oxford handbook of social relations in the Roman world / edited by Michael Peachin.
Peachin, Michael, 1954-
2011
HN10.R7 O94 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The Oxford handbook of social relations in the Roman world / edited by Michael Peachin.
ISBN 9780195188004 (alkaline paper)
0195188004 (alkaline paper)
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xvi, 738 p. : ill., ; 26 cm.
Call Number HN10.R7 O94 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.0937
Summary "The study of ancient Roman society blossomed in the 1970s. By now, we possess a very large literature on the individuals and groups that constituted the Roman community, and the various ways in which members of that community interacted. There is, however, no overview that takes into account the multifarious progress that has been made in the past thirty or forty years. The purpose of this handbook is twofold. On the one hand, it synthesizes what has heretofore been accomplished in this field. On the other hand, it attempts to configure the examination of Roman social relations in some new ways, and thereby indicates directions in which the discipline might proceed."--Book jacket.
"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."--Book jacket.
Note Series statement from jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Peachin, Michael, 1954-
Series Oxford handbooks.
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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.

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