UID:
almafu_9960119143902883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 620 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-50567-8
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1-139-09355-X
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1-108-51461-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge classical studies
Content:
Keith Hopkins was a sociologist and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge from 1985 to 2001. He is widely recognised as one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation. This volume presents fourteen of Hopkins' essays on an impressive range of subjects: contraception, demography, economic history, slavery, literacy, imperial power, Roman religion, Early Christianity, and the social and political structures of the ancient world. The papers have been re-edited and revised with accompanying essays by Hopkins' colleagues, friends and former students. This volume brings Hopkins' work up to date. It sets his distinctive and pioneering use of sociological approaches in a wider intellectual context and explores his lasting impact on the ways that ancient history is now written. This volume will interest all those fascinated by Rome and its empire, and particularly those eager to experience challenging and controversial ways of understanding the past.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
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Introduction : Keith Hopkins : sighting shots / Christopher Kelly -- Contraception in the Roman Empire -- A textual emendation in a fragment of Musonius Rufus : a note on contraception ; afterword / Caroline Vout -- On the probable age structure of the Roman population -- Graveyards for historians ; afterword / Walter Scheidel -- Economic growths and towns in antiquity ; afterword / Neville Morley -- Taxes and trade in the Roman Empire (200 BC-AD 400) ; afterword / Willem M. Jongman -- Models, ships and staples ; afterword / Peter Fibiger Bang and Mamoru Ikeguchi -- From violence to blessing : symbols and rituals in ancient Rome ; afterword / Ja' Elsner -- Slavery in classical antiquity ; afterword / Keith Bradley -- Conquest by book ; afterword / William Harris -- Novel evidence for Roman slavery ; afterword / Catharine Edwards -- Christian number and its implications ; afterword / Kate Cooper -- The political economy of the Roman Empire ; afterword / Greg Woolf -- How to be a Roman emperor : an autobiography ; afterword / Mary Beard.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-01891-9
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139093552
