Slaves to Rome [electronic resource] : paradigms of empire in Roman culture / Myles Lavan.
2013
PA6030.S6 L38 2013
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Title
Slaves to Rome [electronic resource] : paradigms of empire in Roman culture / Myles Lavan.
Author
Lavan, Myles, 1977-
ISBN
9781107026018
9781107306684 (electronic book)
9781107306684 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 288 p.
Call Number
PA6030.S6 L38 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
878/.0108
Summary
"This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their authority over, and responsibilities to, the subject population of the provinces. It traces the relative importance of these different models for the imperial project across almost three centuries of Latin literature, from the middle of the first century BCE to the beginning of the third century CE"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Cambridge classical studies
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Romans and allies; 2. Masters of the world; 3. Empire and slavery in Tacitus; 4. Benefactors; 5. Patrons and protectors; 6. Addressing the allies; Afterword.