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OverviewIn an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the Roman Empire as a political construct. Beginning in early Roman history, Ando shows how the expansion of the empire into new territories led the Romans to develop and exploit Latin's extraordinary capacity for abstraction. In this way, laws and institutions invented for use in a single Mediterranean city-state could be deployed across a remarkably heterogeneous empire. Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Clifford AndoPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9781442650176ISBN 10: 1442650176 Pages: 136 Publication Date: 20 April 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'This is a fascinating book - perceptive, effective, and reasoned... This is not only a singularly important contribution, but also a most welcome one.' -- Matt Gibbs Journal Mnemosyne vol 69:2016 Author InformationClifford Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago and a research fellow in the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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