The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity
$96.06
- Paperback
191 pages
- Release Date
20 January 2025
Summary
The Enduring Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity: A New Perspective
Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral in fact took up immense imaginative space. It was often through the small stuff that the Rom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520413146 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520413148 |
| Series: | Sather Classical Lectures |
| Author: | Emily Gowers |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 191 |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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“Two cheers forThe Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity. . . it deserves to sell, as they say, bigly.” * TLS *
“In The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity, Emily Gowers explores the seemingly small and mundane in Roman life to reveal that small stuff … actually captures the Roman imagination far more than we might expect… . Gowers has produced a libellus that is quirky and playful but always erudite and thoughtful.”
* Bryn Mawr Classical Review *About The Author
Emily Gowers
Emily Gowers is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and author of Rome’s Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas.
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