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Rome the Cosmopolis

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Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf, Mary Beard, Jas' Elsner, Wim Jongman, Richard Miles, Neville Morley, Walter Scheidel, Caroline Vout
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  • Date Published: November 2006
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521030113

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  • Rome stands today for an empire and for a city. The essays gathered in this volume explore some of the many ways in which the two were interwoven. Rome was fed, beautified and enriched by empire just as it was swollen, polluted, infected and occupied by it. Empire was paraded in the streets of Rome, and exhibited in the city's buildings. Empire also made the city ineradicably foreign, polyglot, an alien capital, and a focus for un-Roman activities. The city was where the Roman cosmos was most concentrated, and so was most contested. Deploying a range of methodologies on materials ranging from Egyptian obelisks to human skeletal remains, via Christian art and Latin poetry, the contributors to this volume weave a series of pathways through the world-city, exploring the different kinds of centrality Rome had in the empire. The result is a startlingly original picture of both empire and city.

    • A book-length treatment of Rome as a world city
    • Covers Rome as a cultural centre, as well as issues such as immigration and food supply
    • Combines social and economic history, cultural analysis and history of art, with comparative insights
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    'Nine historians offer lively, original and consistently interesting papers … Rome the Cosmopolis gives us much that is new and memorable.' The Times Literary Supplement

    '… a rich and rewarding collection, which amply demonstrates that the recognition of the cosmopolitan nature of the city of Rome opens up the possibility of new literary, archaeological, historical, and artistic narratives of the city.' Journal of Roman Studies

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    • Date Published: November 2006
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521030113
    • length: 268 pages
    • dimensions: 233 x 154 x 14 mm
    • weight: 0.379kg
    • contains: 18 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    List of figures
    List of contributors
    Preface
    List of abbreviations
    1. Cosmopolis: Rome as World City Catharine Edwards and Greg Woolf
    2. The triumph of the absurd: Roman street theatre Mary Beard
    3. Incorporating the alien: the art of conquest Catharine Edwards
    4. Inventing Christian Rome: the role of early Christian art Jas' Elsner
    5. Slavery and the growth of Rome: the transformation of Italy in the second and first centuries BCE Willem Jongman
    6. Rivalling Rome: Carthage Richard Miles
    7. Migration and the metropolis Neville Morley
    8. Germs for Rome Walter Scheidel
    9. Embracing Egypt Caroline Vout
    10. The City of Letters Greg Woolf
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Editors

    Catharine Edwards, Birkbeck College, University of London
    Catharine Edwards is Lecturer in Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her previous books include Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City (1996; HB 0521 550807; PB 0521 559529).

    Greg Woolf, University of St Andrews, Scotland
    Greg Woolf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. His previous books include Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998 HB 0521 414458; 2000 PB 0521 789826).

    Contributors

    Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf, Mary Beard, Jas' Elsner, Wim Jongman, Richard Miles, Neville Morley, Walter Scheidel, Caroline Vout

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