@book {661201,
	title = {Romulus{\textquoteright} Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian},
	year = {2005},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	address = {Oxford},
	abstract = {<p class="p1">Modern treatments of Rome have projected in highly emotive terms the perceived problems, or the aspirations, of the present: {\textquoteright}race-mixture{\textquoteright} has been blamed for the collapse of the Roman empire; more recently, Rome and Roman society have been depicted as {\textquoteright}multicultural{\textquoteright}. Moving beyond these and beyond more traditional, juridical approaches to Roman identity, Emma Dench focuses on ancient modes of thinking about selves and relationships with other peoples, including descent-myths, history, and ethnographies. She explores the relative importance of sometimes closely interconnected categories of blood descent, language, culture and clothes, and territoriality. Rome{\textquoteright}s creation of a distinctive imperial shape is understood in the context of the broader ancient Mediterranean world within which the Romans self-consciously situated themselves, and whose modes of thought they appropriated and transformed.</p>},
	url = {http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198150510.do},
	author = {Emma Dench}
}
