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Title:
Rome the cosmopolis
Author:
Edwards, Catharine.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
xv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Cosmopolis: Rome as world city / Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf -- The triumph of the absurd: Roman street theatre / Mary Beard -- Incorporating the alien: the art of conquest / Catharine Edwards -- Inventing Christian Rome: the role of early Christian art / Jaþs Elsner -- Slavery and the growth of Rome: the transformation of Italy in the second and first centuries BCE / Willem Jongman -- Rivalling Rome: Carthage / Richard Miles -- Migration and the metropolis / Neville Morley -- Germs for Rome / Walter Scheidel -- Embracing Egypt / Caroline Vout -- The city of letters / Greg Woolf.
ISBN:
9780521800051
Format :
Book