Role models in the Roman world
Subtitle: identity and assimilation
By: edited by Sinclair Bell and Inge Lyse Hansen.
Contributors: Bell, Sinclair.; Hansen, Inge Lyse.
Series: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome -- 7
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780472115891
Subjects: Role models -- Rome -- Congresses; Heroes -- Rome -- Congresses; Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Rome -- Congresses; Assimilation (Sociology) -- Rome -- Congresses; Latin literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Material culture -- Rome -- Congresses; Portraits, Roman -- Congresses; Visual communication -- Rome -- Congresses; Rome -- Social life and customs -- Congresses; Rome -- Intellectual life -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers from a conference held Mar. 17-19, 2003 at the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Role models in the Roman world / Sinclair Bell; title: The concept of roles and the malaise of "identity" : ancient Rome and the modern world / Tonio Hölscher; title: Gracious patrons and vulgar success stories in Roman public media / Suzanne Dixon; title: Who's tricked : models of slave behavior in Plautus's Pseudolus / Roberta Stewart; title: Forging identity in the Roman republic : Trojan ancestry and veristic portraiture / Charles Brian Rose; title: Eluding Romanitas : heroes and antiheroes in Silius Italicus's Roman history / Efrossini Spentzou; title: History and memory in the construction of identity in early second-century Rome / Richard Alston; title: Life without father : declamation and the construction of paternity in the Roman empire / Margaret Imber; title: Daughters as Diana : mythological models in Roman portraiture / Eve D'Ambra; title: Transcending gender : assimilation, identity, and Roman imperial portraits / Eric R. Varner; title: Portrait statues as models for gender roles in Roman society / Glenys Davies; title: Spartan women among the Romans : adapting models, forging identities / Sarah B. Pomeroy; title: Aphrodite and Dionysus : Greek role models for Roman homes? / Shelley Hales; title: The image of the family on sepulchral monuments in the northwest provinces / Henner von Hesberg; title: Muses as models : learning and the complicity of authority / Inge Lyse Hansen; title: Degrees of differentiation : role models on early Christian sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson; title: The philological, the folkloric, and the site-specific : three models for decoding classical visual representation / John R. Clarke.