Slaves to Rome
Subtitle: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture
Publisher: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781107026018
Subjects: Latin literature, history and criticism; Slavery in literature; Imperialism in literature; Slaves; Elite (social sciences); Latin language; Rhetoric, ancient; Language and culture; Rome, politics and government
Description: "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"--