Rome's Cultural Revolution
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; some stains on the book block, otherwise clean text.
At the height of the Roman Republic's transformation into an Empire, a seismic shift in culture, identity, and power reshaped the ancient world — and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill's Rome's Cultural Revolution chronicles this momentous transition with scholarly precision and compelling clarity. The work argues that the late Republic and early Imperial periods witnessed not merely political upheaval, but a profound reimagining of Roman identity, as the elite absorbed, adapted, and ultimately redefined Greek culture to assert Roman dominance. Wallace-Hadrill presents a Rome caught between tradition and innovation, where language, luxury, domestic space, and social ritual became the battlegrounds upon which a new civilisation was forged. Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and literary evidence, Wallace-Hadrill illustrates how the private and public spheres of Roman life were mutually transformative, dismantling the long-held binary between Roman and Greek to reveal a far more complex cultural negotiation. His analysis of material culture — from the organisation of the Roman house to the display of Greek art — offers a richly textured portrait of a society in flux, one whose tensions and ambitions still resonate in the study of Western civilisation. For anyone seeking to understand how great empires are not merely built by conquest but are shaped from within by the slow revolution of culture and ideas, this authoritative study poses a question that lingers long after the final page: who, in the end, conquered whom?
Author: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Format: Paperback
Genre: Ancient history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; some stains on the book block, otherwise clean text.
At the height of the Roman Republic's transformation into an Empire, a seismic shift in culture, identity, and power reshaped the ancient world — and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill's Rome's Cultural Revolution chronicles this momentous transition with scholarly precision and compelling clarity. The work argues that the late Republic and early Imperial periods witnessed not merely political upheaval, but a profound reimagining of Roman identity, as the elite absorbed, adapted, and ultimately redefined Greek culture to assert Roman dominance. Wallace-Hadrill presents a Rome caught between tradition and innovation, where language, luxury, domestic space, and social ritual became the battlegrounds upon which a new civilisation was forged. Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and literary evidence, Wallace-Hadrill illustrates how the private and public spheres of Roman life were mutually transformative, dismantling the long-held binary between Roman and Greek to reveal a far more complex cultural negotiation. His analysis of material culture — from the organisation of the Roman house to the display of Greek art — offers a richly textured portrait of a society in flux, one whose tensions and ambitions still resonate in the study of Western civilisation. For anyone seeking to understand how great empires are not merely built by conquest but are shaped from within by the slow revolution of culture and ideas, this authoritative study poses a question that lingers long after the final page: who, in the end, conquered whom?