Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew.

Rome's cultural revolution / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xxiv, 502 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-492) and index.

Cultures and identities -- Culture, identity and power -- Dress, language and identity -- Building identities -- Roman Italy : between Roman, Greek and local -- Vitruvius : building Roman identity -- Knowledge and power -- Knowing the ancestors -- Knowing the city -- The consumer revolution -- Luxury and the consumer revolution -- Waves of fashion

9780521896849 (hbk.) 9780521721608 (pbk.)


Group identity--Rome.
National characteristics, Roman.


Rome--Social life and customs.
Rome--Civilization

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