Romanization in the Time of Augustus - Hardcover

MacMullen, Ramsay

 
9780300082548: Romanization in the Time of Augustus

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During the lifetime of Augustus (63 BC to AD 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world. Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period, drawing largely on archaeological sources.

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During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In his newest book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period.Drawing largely on archaeological sources, MacMullen discovers that during this period more than half a million Roman veterans were resettled in colonies overseas, and an additional hundred or more urban centers in the provinces took on normal Italian-Roman town constitutions. Great sums of expendable wealth came into the hands of ambitious Roman and local notables, some of which was spent in establishing and advertising Roman ways. MacMullen argues that acculturation of the ancient world was due not to cultural imperialism on the part of the conquerors but to eagerness of imitation among the conquered, and that the Romans were able to respond with surprisingly effective techniques of mass production and standardization.

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ISBN 10:  0300137532 ISBN 13:  9780300137538
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2008
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