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Rome the Cosmopolis (Paperback, New Ed)
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Rome the Cosmopolis (Paperback, New Ed)
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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.
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