Rome the Cosmopolis

Rome the Cosmopolis
Author: Catharine Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521030113

A collection of essays exploring key aspects of the relationship between Rome and its empire.

Rome, Empire of Plunder

Rome, Empire of Plunder
Author: Matthew Loar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108418422

An interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.

Being Greek Under Rome

Being Greek Under Rome
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521030878

This book explores the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire, through the perspective of Greek writings. The specially commissioned essays investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity.

A Companion to the City of Rome

A Companion to the City of Rome
Author: Claire Holleran
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 804
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405198192

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600. Offers a unique interdisciplinary, closely focused thematic approach and wide chronological scope making it an indispensible reference work on ancient Rome Includes several new developments on areas of research that are available in English for the first time Newly commissioned essays written by experts in a variety of related fields Original and up-to-date readings pertaining to the city of Rome on a wide variety of topics including Rome’s urban landscape, population, economy, civic life, and key events

Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis
Author: Stephen Toulmin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226808383

In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda—its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world. "By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point, Toulmin helps destroy the illusion that the Cartesian quest for certainty is intrinsic to the nature of science or philosophy."—Richard M. Rorty, University of Virginia "[Toulmin] has now tackled perhaps his most ambitious theme of all. . . . His aim is nothing less than to lay before us an account of both the origins and the prospects of our distinctively modern world. By charting the evolution of modernity, he hopes to show us what intellectual posture we ought to adopt as we confront the coming millennium."—Quentin Skinner, New York Review of Books

Cosmopolis — Complete

Cosmopolis — Complete
Author: Paul Bourget
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Cosmopolis — Complete is a novel by French author Paul Bourget, known for his psychological and social exploration in his works. In Cosmopolis, Bourget delves into the complexities of human relationships and the cultural intricacies of an interconnected world. His keen observations and nuanced storytelling make this work an engaging and thought-provoking read.

Ancient Rome as a Museum

Ancient Rome as a Museum
Author: Steven Rutledge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0199573239

Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.

Tales of the Barbarians

Tales of the Barbarians
Author: Greg Woolf
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444390805

Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in the Roman West Explores how ancient geography, local histories and the stories of wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and local experts Offers a fresh perspective by examining passages from ancient writers in a new light

Two Romes

Two Romes
Author: Lucy Grig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 019024108X

An integrated collection of essays by leading scholars, Two Romes explores the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity. This important examination of the "two Romes" in comparative perspective illuminates our understanding not just of both cities but of the whole late Roman world.