Rome in the East : the transformation of an empire / Warwick Ball.
"Rome in the East provides an illustrated study of the influence of Near Eastern culture on the Roman world, which overturns received wisdom about Rome as the bastion of European culture. In this controversial and provocative study Warwick Ball presents the story of Rome in the light of Rome�...
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| Hōputu: | iPukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Urunga tuihono: | EBSCO eBooks Publisher description |
| Whakarāpopototanga: | "Rome in the East provides an illustrated study of the influence of Near Eastern culture on the Roman world, which overturns received wisdom about Rome as the bastion of European culture. In this controversial and provocative study Warwick Ball presents the story of Rome in the light of Rome's fascination with the East. He explains Rome's obsession with the Eastern world as a fascination of the new world for the old, of the mundane for the exotic, a love affair with the East that took literal form in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. From Rome's legendary foundation by Aeneas and the Trojan heroes as the New Troy, through installing Arabs as Roman emperors, to the eventual foundation of the new Rome by a latter-day Aeneas at Constantinople, the East took over Rome - and Rome ultimately ditched Europe to the Barbarians. Through this obsession, Near Eastern civilisation - most of all, Christianity - went West to transform Europe. Warwick Ball argues that the story of Rome is the story of the East, more than the story of the West."--Jacket |
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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | 1 online resource (xix, 523 pages) : illustrations |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203023226 020315942X 0415113768 0415243572 1134823878 1280333634 9780203023228 9780203159422 9780415113762 9780415243575 9781134823871 9781280333637 |