Ethnic Identity And Aristocratic Competition In Republican Rome

The ancient Romans are usually thought of as a monolithic ethnic group thoughin fact they formed a selfconsciously pluralistic society. In this book GaryD. Farn... » 

The ancient Romans are usually thought of as a monolithic ethnic group thoughin fact they formed a selfconsciously pluralistic society. In this book GaryD. Farney explores how senators from Romes Republican period celebrated andmanipulated their ethnic identity to get ahead in Romes political culture. Heexamines how politicians from these lands tried to advertise positive aspectsof their ethnic identity how others tried to recreate a negative identityinto something positive and how ethnic identity advertisement developed overthe course of Republican history. Finally in an epilogue Farney addresses howthe various Italic identities coalesced into a singular Italian identity in theEmpire and how Romes experience with Italic groups informed how it perceivedother groups such as Gauls Germans and Greeks. «