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Author | : J. P. Toner |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745654908 |
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The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite. This book helps redress the balance by focusing on the non-elite in the Roman world. It builds a vivid account of the everyday lives of the masses, including their social and family life, health, leisure and religious beliefs, and the ways in which their popular culture resisted the domination of the ruling elite. The book highlights previously under-considered aspects of popular culture of the period to give a fuller picture. It is the first book to take fully into account the level of mental health: given the physical and social environment that most people faced, their overall mental health mirrored their poor physical health. It also reveals fascinating details about the ways in which people solved problems, turning frequently to oracles for advice and guidance when confronted by difficulties. Our understanding of the non-elite world is further enriched through the depiction of sensory dimensions: Toner illustrates how attitudes to smell, touch, and noise all varied with social status and created conflict, and how the emperors tried to resolve these disputes as part of their regeneration of urban life. Popular Culture in Ancient Rome offers a rich and accessible introduction to the usefulness of the notion of popular culture in studying the ancient world and will be enjoyed by students and general readers alike.
Author | : Lucy Grig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107074894 |
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This book adopts a new approach to the classical world by focusing on ancient popular culture.
Author | : Christopher Francese |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780781811538 |
Download Ancient Rome in So Many Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The brief word-histories in this book are meant to provide background on some words that everyone learns when they study Latin, as well as some rarer terms that have interesting stories to tell about Roman culture. This book lists a new word or phrase that came into American English every year from 1975 to 1998, with a selection of early additions from 1497 to 1750, and discusses the history behind the adoption of each. Teachers and students of Latin can benefit from the slightly more formal, but still anecdotal, approach taken here to some key words in the Latin lexicon.
Author | : Maria Wyke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317796063 |
Download Projecting the Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Brought vividly to life on screen, the myth of ancient Rome resonates through modern popular culture. Projecting the Past examines how the cinematic traditions of Hollywood and Italy have resurrected ancient Rome to address the concerns of the present. The book engages contemporary debates about the nature of the classical tradition, definitions of history, and the place of the past in historical film.
Author | : Gideon Nisbet |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781904675785 |
Download Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This history of Greece in the 20th century imagination - from film to science fiction and comics - examines the preconceptions of the ancient world which cause difficulties in contemporary media.
Author | : Frank Frost Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Latin language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jan H. Blits |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739189212 |
Download The Heart of Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The essays in this book examine the political activities and institutions of pre-Imperial Rome in conjunction with the habits of the hearts and the minds of the Romans. Relying on the writings of ancient authors, the essays analyze significant political developments and events. They attempt to draw out the meaning of what the authors say and impose no theory on the ancient writings. Nor do they pursue the methodological techniques of contemporary historiography. While avoiding such common present-day anachronisms, they take their guidance directly from the ancient historians themselves and examine their understanding of Rome’s political history and culture. Harking back to the ancient view that a political culture or regime is both a city’s form of government and its way of life, the essays, trying to be true to the full character of Roman political life, seek to understand the political activities and the souls of the Romans, and to understand each in the light of the other.
Author | : Agnes Garcia-Ventura |
Publisher | : Lockwood Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2020-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1948488256 |
Download Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars-archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians-to reflect on how objects, ideas, and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remembered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized, or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures, and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
Author | : Flavio Conti |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780892366972 |
Download A Profile of Ancient Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Illustrations, text, and reproductions of historical items provide an overview of the history and culture of ancient Rome, including information on its sites, monuments, protagonists, religion, language, political and legal system, armies, economy, architecture, and everyday life.
Author | : J. P. Toner |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745668909 |
Download Leisure and Ancient Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.