Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome

by A.N. Sherwin-White and A. N. Sherwin-White

Book Overview

Although Roman Imperialism unified a diversity of peoples into a centralised political unit, racial and cultural prejudice persisted. It took forms of varying significance, ranging from a lawyer's gibes at Celts for their long hair to the massacre of 10,000 Jews at Damascus during the reign of Nero. Sherwin-White has taken as his theme the literary evidence for racial tension during the Roman Imperial period. He begins by considering the criticisms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521128927
• ISBN13: 9780521128926
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"