Roman Social Imaginaries (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
136
Utgivningsdatum
2015-04-20
Förlag
University of Toronto Press
Dimensioner
231 x 150 x 18 mm
Vikt
363 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781442650176

Roman Social Imaginaries

Language and Thought in the Context of Empire

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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 Latins 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 todays most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world.
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This is a fascinating book perceptive, effective, and reasoned This is not only a singularly important contribution, but also a most welcome one. -- Matt Gibbs * Journal Mnemosyne vol 69:2016 *

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Clifford Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago and a research fellow in the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Roman Social Imaginaries Chapter 1: Belonging Chapter 2: Cognition Chapter 3: The Ontology of the Social Conclusion: Making Romans