Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Towards a Roman dialect of empire; 2. Territory; 3. Wealth and society; 4. Force and violence; 5. Time; Epilogue: becoming Roman?

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Uses a broad range of evidence to explore how the Roman Empire worked and was experienced by its subjects.

About the Author

Emma Dench is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics at Harvard University. Her publications include Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the age of Hadrian (2005) and From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples of the Central Apennines (1995), as well as numerous articles and chapters on ethnicity, race, empire, and historiography in the ancient world.