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1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-273). |
| Contents |
Persona, identity, and self-presentation in Roman declamation / Neil W. Bernstein -- Last words : Cicero's late works and the poetics of a literary legacy / Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle -- Pride and prejudice in Cicero's speeches / Saskia T. Roselaar -- Propertian self-presentation and Augustan ideology / Ellen Greene -- Sphragis of Virgil's Georgics : constructing identity through intertextuality / Boris Kayachev -- Self-presentation in Pliny's Epistle 9.23 / Spyridon Tzounakas -- Self-presentation of the Roman soldier on military tombstones from the Rhineland in the 1st C. AD / Christophe Schmidt Heidenreich -- Reclaiming the past in the valley of Una : re-use of Iapodean urns in Roman times / Danijel Dzino -- Beyond the epigraphic habit : reflection and self-reflection on the funerary monuments of Dacia Porolissensis / Rada Varga -- Latinate nomenclature for a Romanized identity : attempts to construct an aspired displayed identity / Andreas Gavrielatos -- Hereditary nomenclature in Moesia Inferior and its value as a source for the study of identities / Kalin Stoev -- From divus Augustus to vicarius Christi : examples of self--presentation in a period of transition / Dionysios Benétos. |
| Summary |
Questions on identity have been often the main focus of Classical Studies. The starting point of this book is that identity is not a monolithic idea. Instead of exploring what exactly 'identity' is, the contributors here examine how the concept of 'self-presentation' can facilitate our understanding of how individuals present their identities. Moreover, the interpretation of the means and character of this self-presentation itself enables more general conclusions to be drawn. Topics covered in this volume include identities shaped through the self-presentation of authors in Latin literature, a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Self-presentation -- Rome -- History.
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Rome (Italy) -- History -- To 476.
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History. |
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Cultural studies. |
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Ancient history: to c 500 CE. |
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General. |
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Self-presentation. |
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Italy -- Rome. |
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Rome (Empire) |
| Chronological Term |
To 476 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Gavrielatos, Andreas, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Self-presentation and identity in the Roman world. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443899836 (OCoLC)961008829 |
| ISBN |
9781443893671 (electronic book) |
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1443893676 (electronic book) |
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1443899836 |
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9781443899833 |
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