Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire

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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 134
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today’s most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and a Note on Translations
ROMAN SOCIAL IMAGINARIES
Introduction: Roman Social Imaginaries
1. Belonging
2. Cognition
3. The Ontology of the Social
Conclusion: Making Romans
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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