TY  - GEN
N2  - "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"--
AB  - "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"--
T1  - Slaves to Romeparadigms of empire in Roman culture /
DA  - 2013.
CY  - Cambridge ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Lavan, Myles,
CN  - PA6030.S6
PB  - Cambridge University Press,
PP  - Cambridge ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2013.
ID  - 888062
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - Slavery in literature.
KW  - Imperialism in literature.
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Rhetoric, Ancient.
KW  - Language and culture
TI  - Slaves to Romeparadigms of empire in Roman culture /
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ER  -