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Roman Social Imaginaries - Language and Thought in the Context of Empire (Hardcover)
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Roman Social Imaginaries - Language and Thought in the Context of Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Robson Classical Lectures
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In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford
Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin
language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing
on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman
Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and
ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the
Roman Empire as a political construct. Beginning in early Roman
history, Ando shows how the expansion of the empire into new
territories led the Romans to develop and exploit Latin's
extraordinary capacity for abstraction. In this way, laws and
institutions invented for use in a single Mediterranean city-state
could be deployed across a remarkably heterogeneous empire. Lucid,
insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries
constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power
of language in the ancient world.
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