Leisured resistance : villas, literature and politics in the Roman world /

Leisured resistance : villas, literature and politics in the Roman world /

"Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dewar, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014.
Series:Classical essays
Subjects:
Aristocracy (Social class) > Rome > History.
Country homes > Rome > History.
Politics and literature > Rome > History.
Politics and culture > Rome > History.
Government, Resistance to > Rome > History.
Radicalism > Rome > History.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > Intellectual life.
Rome > Politics and government.

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Call Number: DG83.3 .D49 2014
 
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