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Clifford Ando - Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire - 9781442650176 - V9781442650176
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Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire

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Description for Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire Hardback. 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. Series: Robson Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA; HBLA1; HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.

In 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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Robson Classical Lectures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442650176
SKU
V9781442650176
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About Clifford Ando
Clifford 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.

Reviews for Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
‘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

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