Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire

by Richard Hingley

Book Overview

Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture?

Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415351766
• ISBN13: 9780415351768
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"