Roman identity : between ideal and performance / edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Jos e Lu is Brand ao, Cl audia Teixeira and Alia Rodrigues.
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Turnhout : Brepols, [2022] |
| Copyright Date | 2022 |
| Description | 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Roig Lanzillotta, Lautaro editor. |
| Other author/creator | Brand ao, Jos e Lu is, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Teixeira, Cláudia, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Rodrigues, Ália Rosa C., editor. |
| Series | Antiquit e et sciences humaines Antiquit e et sciences humaines ; 8. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Introduction: Defining Self and Other in Changing Situations and Discourses. The Dynamism and Fluidity of the Notion of Identity / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- I. Roman Identity in (Auto)Biographical Texts -- Similarities and Dissimilarities: Roman Identity and Models of Behaviour in Nepos' Punic Lives / Francesco Ginelli -- Identity in Latin Verse Autobiography / Helen Kaufmann -- Lucretia, Tullia and Tanaquil: Shaping the Identity of Rome's Women in the Augustan Period / Nuno Sim oes Rodrigues -- Pythagoreanism and Roman Identity in Plutarch's Aemilius Paullus / Davide Morelli -- Overcoming Otherness in Flavian Rome: Flavius Josephus and the Rhetoric of Identity in the Bellum Judaicum / Eelco Glas -- Performing Roman Identity in Suetonius' Caesars / Jos e Lu is Brand ao -- When the Emperor is the Other: Perceptions of Identity in the Historia Augusta's Life of Maximinus / Cl audia Teixeira -- II. Roman Identity in Political and Legal Discourses -- Quirites and Populus Romanus: New Identities and Old Figures in Archaic Legal Formulas / Carlo Pelloso -- Rome in the Mirror: Varro's Quest for the Past, for a Present Goal / Federica Lazzerini -- Sacra privata perpetua manento: A Reading of Cicero's De Legibus / Cl audia Beltr ao -- Roman Maiestas: Becoming Imperial, Staying Republican / Alia Rodrigues -- What's in a Natio: Negotiating Ethnic Identity in the Roman Empire / Kelly Nguyen. |
| Summary | The contributions of this volume aim to shed light on a variety of performances and manifestations of Roman identity - not only by studying sources in which the self or individual is the primary focus, but also by considering case studies of specific elements associated with Roman identity. Recent years have seen a significant increase in (in)voluntary migratory movements. Due to economic, political, or climatologic reasons large numbers of individuals move from their countries of origin and settle in new environments and societies. As a result, (national) identity has played an increasing role in political discourse; it has shaped and reshaped national agendas, it had an impact on policies and influenced voting behaviours. The discourse on national identities is often motivated by the idea of autochthony. Yet we do not encounter this anxiety in ancient Rome, one of the longest-lasting political orders in history. Unlike the Greeks, the idea of autochthony did not take root among the Romans. On the contrary: Rome's identity was fluid, accommodating the development of highly variegated and multi-ethnic groups and societies. The purpose of this volume is to understand how the Romans represented themselves and how others defined and regarded them. It aims to identify the various narratives that contributed to the construction of Roman self-representation by raising the following questions: What stories did Romans tell about themselves? How did they enact and perform their selfhood in biographic and autobiographical sources? How did Greek and Judean sources understand and define Roman identity? And, taken together, how did these narratives influence Roman self-perception? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9782503599229 |
| ISBN | 2503599222 |
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