The Roman clan : the gens from ancient ideology to modern anthropology
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The Roman clan : the gens from ancient ideology to modern anthropology
(The W.B. Stanford memorial lectures)
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-383) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The gens, a key social formation in archaic Rome, has given rise to considerable interpretative problems for modern scholarship. In this comprehensive exploration of the subject, Professor Smith examines the mismatch between the ancient evidence and modern interpretative models influenced by social anthropology and political theory. He offers a detailed comparison of the gens with the Attic genos and illustrates, for the first time, how recent changes in the way we understand the genos may impact upon our understanding of Roman history. He develops a concept of the gens within the interlocking communal institutions of early Rome, which touches on questions of land ownership, warfare and the patriciate, before offering an explanation of the role of the gens and the part it might play in modern political theory. This significant work makes an important contribution not only to the study of archaic Rome, but also to the history of ideas.
Table of Contents
- General introduction
- Part I: Introduction
- 1. The ancient evidence
- 2. Modern interpretations
- 3. The gens in the mirror: Roman gens and Attic genos
- 4. Archaeology and the gens
- Part I conclusion
- Part II: 5. The Roman community
- 6. The Roman curiae
- 7. The patricians and the land
- 8. The patriciate
- 9. Warfare in the regal and early republican periods
- 10. Explaining the gens
- 11. Roman history and the modern world
- Appendix 1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the Roman curiae and religion
- Appendix 2. The missing curiae.
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