Role models in the Roman world : identity and assimilation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press,
2008
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| Series: | Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome : Supplementary volume ;
7 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Role models in the Roman world / Sinclair Bell
- The concept of roles and the malaise of "identity" : ancient Rome and the modern world / Tonio Ho?lscher
- Gracious patrons and vulgar success stories in Roman public media / Suzanne Dixon
- Whoʹs tricked : models of slave behavior in Plautusʹs Pseudolus / Roberta Stewart
- Forging identity in the Roman republic : Trojan ancestry and veristic portraiture / Charles Brian Rose
- Eluding Romanitas : heroes and antiheroes in Silius Italicusʹs Roman history / Efrossini Spentzou
- History and memory in the construction of identity in early second-century Rome / Richard Alston
- Life without father : declamation and the construction of paternity in the Roman empire / Margaret Imber
- Daughters as Diana : mythological models in Roman portraiture / Eve DʹAmbra
- Transcending gender : assimilation, identity, and Roman imperial portraits / Eric R. Varner
- Portrait statues as models for gender roles in Roman society / Glenys Davies
- Spartan women among the Romans : adapting models, forging identities / Sarah B. Pomeroy
- Aphrodite and Dionysus : Greek role models for Roman homes? / Shelley Hales
- The image of the family on sepulchral monuments in the northwest provinces / Henner von Hesberg
- Muses as models : learning and the complicity of authority / Inge Lyse Hansen
- Degrees of differentiation : role models on early Christian sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson
- The philological, the folkloric, and the site-specific : three models for decoding classical visual representation / John R. Clarke