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The Romans (Paperback, New edition)
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The Romans (Paperback, New edition)
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In this book, third in a series which includes Jacques Le Goff's
"Medieval Characters" and Eugenio Garin's "Renaissance Portraits,"
leading scholars search for the character of the ancient Romans
through portraits of Rome's most typical personages. Essays on the
politician, the soldier, the priest, the farmer, the slave, the
merchant, and others together create a fresco of Roman society as
it spanned 1300 years.
Synthesizing a wealth of current research, "The Romans" surveys the
most complex society ever to exist prior to the Industrial Age.
Searching out the identity of the ancient Roman, the contributors
describe an urbane figure at odds with his rustic peers, known for
his warlike nature and his love of virtue, his magnanimity to
foreigners and his predilection for cutting off his enemies' heads.
Most important, perhaps, of the themes explored throughout this
volume are those of freedom and slavery, of citizenship and
"humanitas,"
What results from the depictions Roman society through time and
across its many constituent cultures is the variety of Roman
identity in all its richness and depth. These masterful essays will
engage the general reader as well as the specialist in history and
culture.
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