TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavan,Myles
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Slaves to Rome: paradigms of empire in Roman culture 
AV  - PA6030.S6 L38 2013
U1  - 878/.0108 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Rome
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - History
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Rhetoric, Ancient
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 30 B.C.-476 A.D
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Romans and allies; 2. Masters of the world; 3. Empire and slavery in Tacitus; 4. Benefactors; 5. Patrons and protectors; 6. Addressing the allies; Afterword; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their authority over, and responsibilities to, the subject population of the provinces. It traces the relative importance of these different models for the imperial project across almost three centuries of Latin literature, from the middle of the first century BCE to the beginning of the third century CE"--
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1113082
ER  -