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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new and exciting links between the various sub-disciplines that make up Roman Studies--for example, between literature and epigraphy, art and philosophy, papyrology and economic history. The Handbook, in fact, aims to establish a field and scholarly practice as much as to describe the current state of play. Connections with disciplines outside classics are also explored, including anthropology, psychoanalysis, gender and reception studies, and the use of new media.
976 pages, Paperback
First published July 29, 2010
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August 11, 2022
The Oxford Handbook Of Roman Studies
A good book to pair with this reading might be – The Cambridge Economic History Of The Greco-Roman World, Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris & Richard P. Saller
This book is a fantastic resource for understanding the current tools used, approaches made, and ideas conceived within the development of Roman studies. Collated from a series of essays categorised into chapters from five Parts, these leading experts and scholars from around the world demonstrate the far-reaching consequences of the Roman world during its Republican and Empire era; its Rise and Decline and what that meant for the provinces that depended on it; socio-political and philosophical literay competences, as well as exposing the challenges and limits frequently faced when studying Roman and Latin literature, archaeology, history and more. The question of “What do the Romans mean to us?” is flipped to “What would we mean to the Romans?” when considering how historical and anthropological studies – as we understand them today – was understood by them. “History”, for example, was used more liberally in the ancient world, often mixing with mythology.
The five headlined Parts are Tools; Approaches; Genres; History, and; Ideas, and offers a notional understanding that what is discussed is not in totality a linear discussion of Rome from its beginning to its end and then everything else between, but rather each chapter provides insight as to the current state of research and methodologies used to tackle: the Parts “History” and “Ideas” are therefore probably more tuned for the general-reader interested in wanting to learn about the background of Rome’s emergence and the Roman world. With that said, there is certainly enough valuable gems for an enlightening read, and information on the essence and involvement of Roman studies packed away in every essay for every reader to digest.
A good book to pair with this reading might be – The Cambridge Economic History Of The Greco-Roman World, Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris & Richard P. Saller
This book is a fantastic resource for understanding the current tools used, approaches made, and ideas conceived within the development of Roman studies. Collated from a series of essays categorised into chapters from five Parts, these leading experts and scholars from around the world demonstrate the far-reaching consequences of the Roman world during its Republican and Empire era; its Rise and Decline and what that meant for the provinces that depended on it; socio-political and philosophical literay competences, as well as exposing the challenges and limits frequently faced when studying Roman and Latin literature, archaeology, history and more. The question of “What do the Romans mean to us?” is flipped to “What would we mean to the Romans?” when considering how historical and anthropological studies – as we understand them today – was understood by them. “History”, for example, was used more liberally in the ancient world, often mixing with mythology.
The five headlined Parts are Tools; Approaches; Genres; History, and; Ideas, and offers a notional understanding that what is discussed is not in totality a linear discussion of Rome from its beginning to its end and then everything else between, but rather each chapter provides insight as to the current state of research and methodologies used to tackle: the Parts “History” and “Ideas” are therefore probably more tuned for the general-reader interested in wanting to learn about the background of Rome’s emergence and the Roman world. With that said, there is certainly enough valuable gems for an enlightening read, and information on the essence and involvement of Roman studies packed away in every essay for every reader to digest.
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