Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Flawless, very good condition. - Content: The ancient Romans are usually thought of as a monolithic ethnie group, though in fact they formed a self-consciously pluralistic society. In this book, Gary D. Farney explores how senators from Rome�s Republican period celebrated and manipulated their ethnie identity to get ahead in Rome�s political culture. He examines how politicians from various lands tried to advertise positive aspects of their ethnie identity, how others tried to re-create a n�tive identity into some-thing positive, and how ethnie identity advertisement developed over the course of Republican history. Finally, Farney addresses how the various Italie identifies coalesced into a singular Italian identity in the Empire and how Rome�s exp�ence with Italie groups informed how it perceived other groups, such as Gauls, Germans, and Greeks. Gary D. Farney is assistant professor of history at Rutgers University in Newark. A scholar of Roman history, he is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has published in journals such as Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Historia, and Athenaeum. ISBN 9780521863315