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" Constructing identities in late antiquity / "
edited by Richard Miles.
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BL
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965010
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b719380
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| Title & Author
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Constructing identities in late antiquity /\ edited by Richard Miles.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1999.
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1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0203016173
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: 0415194067
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: 0415518865
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: 6610334404
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: 9780203016176
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: 9780203260357
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: 9780415194068
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: 9780415518864
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: 9781134649877
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: 9781134649914
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: 9781134649921
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: 9781280334405
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover -- CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 THE WRITES OF PASSAGE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 GENDER AND IDENTITY IN MUSAEUS' HERO AND LEANDER -- Vocalising identities: dissent of a woman -- Imbricating identities: Hero(ine) chic -- Socialising identities: a deranged marriage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 PRUDENTIUS' PSYCHOMACHIA -- Introduction -- The Christian conundrum -- Locating the cultural space -- Ambivalent associations -- The bad and the beautiful -- The cachet of suffering -- On with the show -- Luxuria: spicing up the spectacle -- The sacrificial model -- The final curtain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 DRAMATIC IDENTITIES -- Tragedy and performance in late antiquity -- Tragedy, identity and the reception of the past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 TRANSLATE INTO GREEK -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL IDENTITY AND PHILOSOPHICAL PAST IN AUGUSTINE'S DIALOGUE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 THE DESTRUCTION OF STATUES IN LATE ANTIQUITY 1 -- Damnatio memoriae and the rules of disorder -- Late antiquity -- Christians and idols -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- 9 WOMEN AND LEARNING -- Men, women and Muses -- Women without men -- Christian images -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography -- 10 CONSTRUCTING THE JUDGE -- The ideal judge -- The judge in court -- The corrupt judge -- Accountability and the abuse of power -- The Persecuting Judge -- Image and accountability -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography -- 11 THE BARBARIAN IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- Image and reality in the fourth century -- Image and reality transformed -- Bibliography -- INDEX.
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| Abstract
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Examines the theme of identity: geographic, ethnic, religious, status and sex-based. Discussions of Roman texts and images show how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the creation of late antiquity" as a historical concept."
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Christianity-- Rome-- Influence.
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Civilization, Classical.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Christianity-- Influence.
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Civilization, Classical.
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Cultural policy.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Rome, Cultural policy.
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Rome, History, Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Dewey Classification
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937
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| LC Classification
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DG78.C585 1999eb
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| NLM classification
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15.51bcl
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| Added Entry
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Miles, Richard,1969-
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