The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity - Emily Gowers

The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity

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Buch | Softcover
191 Seiten
2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41314-6 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral in fact took up immense imaginative space. It was often through the small stuff that the Romans most acutely probed and challenged their society’s overarching values and priorities and its sense of proportion and justice. There is much to learn from what didn’t or shouldn’t matter. By marking the spots where the apparently pointless becomes significant, this book radically adjusts our understanding of the Romans and their world, as well as our own minor feelings and intimate preoccupations.
 

Emily Gowers is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and author of Rome’s Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas. 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Sather Classical Lectures ; 77
Zusatzinfo 21 color images, 3 b-w images
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-520-41314-8 / 0520413148
ISBN-13 978-0-520-41314-6 / 9780520413146
Zustand Neuware
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