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Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
  • Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750
  • Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Michael Maas
  • Published online:
    13 April 2018
    Print publication:
    26 April 2018
  • Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.

  • 10 - World City: Society and Culture in Rome (85–45 BCE)

  • Josiah Osgood, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE
    Published online:
    11 April 2018
    Print publication:
    12 April 2018, pp 160-176

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the social, cultural, and economic history of the city of Rome in the late Republic. The influx of immigrants into the city in search of fortune caused many shops and family businesses to spring up and altered the cityscape in the process. Roman education, focused on rhetoric, philosophy, and classical literature, developed and in turn a more robust intellectual life. This chapter documents the many literary contributions by contemporary authors such as Catullus and Cicero. Rome, as it is today, was a museum city with the public display of much impressive arts and architecture. This chapter ends with a survey of the popular culture and leisure activities, along with a discussion of sexuality and the use of humor.

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