The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture
202 THE ROMAN EMPIRE for ways of gaining access to specifi cally religious roles from which they were generally excluded by the ...
RELIGION 203 but each in its own way: ‘civic’ religion emphasizes the socio- political dominance of a specifi c group (Rives 199 ...
204 THE ROMAN EMPIRE There have also been recent attempts to exploit religious texts of the Second Sophistic in relation to wide ...
RELIGION 205 of a specifi c end that requires constant investment by those who possess the required aptitude. Once the assumptio ...
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Following the victory of Augustus, institutions, values and cultural life in Rome gradually adjusted to the monarchy. Augustus’ ...
208 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Rome The obsession of the early emperors with their personal safety and the security of their regimes set n ...
CULTURE 209 The imperial system imposed new constraints upon literature.^2 Historians, with few exceptions men of high rank for ...
210 THE ROMAN EMPIRE contributed to this development and to the transformation that oratory underwent, which in the view of crit ...
CULTURE 211 Oratory did not decline; it fl ourished. Indeed, profi ting from the absence of distinguished exponents of the conve ...
212 THE ROMAN EMPIRE art forms. By drawing together certain traditions and stylistic conventions already much employed in the la ...
CULTURE 213 praised for his civic sense by Vitruvius. In contrast, Nero’s Golden House was a product of his own ambitious tastes ...
214 THE ROMAN EMPIRE and Aurelian columns) reveals a retreat from realism and a widening of the gap between emperor and subjects ...
CULTURE 215 Roman intellectual scene. Romans in the Flavian period witnessed the spectacle of a Spaniard, Quintilian, the leadin ...
216 THE ROMAN EMPIRE languages (not the same thing) was a rarity, worth boasting about on an inscription or in a public speech.^ ...
CULTURE 217 The limits of Romanization: cities It was in the context of the city, for the most part in the western empire, that ...
218 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Cappadocia with a view to studying law ‘at Berytus, that most Roman of cities, centre of instruction in the ...
CULTURE 219 sources partially lift the veil, but in the Phoenician cities continuity with the pre-Greek past in the areas of lan ...
220 THE ROMAN EMPIRE rustics stood out from other members of the congregations of, respectively, John Chrysostom and Augustine.^ ...
CULTURE 221 abroad and the subject peoples. The elitist and town- centred character of Roman civilization have been recurrent th ...
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