Foreigners at Rome

Citizens and Strangers

David Noy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2000
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7156-2952-9 (ISBN)

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Rome was constantly sustained by immigrants. What happened to them after their arrival? Did they try to keep contact with their homelands? Did they form distinctive communities within Rome? Utilising inscriptions and literature, this book studies the experiences of newcomers to the capital.

'The Tiber has been joinded by the Orontes'. So wrote the Roman satirist Juvenal, in a complaint about immigration to the Empire's capital. Rome was constantly sustained by immigrants. Some were voluntary: craftworkers, soldiers, teachers and intellectuals. Countless others came as slaves. What happened to them after their arrival? Did they try to keep contact with their homelands? Did they form distinctive commnities within Rome? This book is a systematic study of Rome's foreign-born element. The author uses inscriptions and literature to explore the experiences of newcomers to the capital. The results are compared with the colourful Roman stereotypes of different immigrant groups.

David Noy is author of Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe vols. 1-2, and co-author with William Horbury of Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2000
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 242 mm
Gewicht	762 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7156-2952-2 / 0715629522
ISBN-13	978-0-7156-2952-9 / 9780715629529
Zustand	Neuware