Ball, Warwick <br/><br/>
Rome in the East  The Transformation of an Empire 
Warwick Ball 
 - U.S.A.  Routledge  2001 
 - 523tr.  Paperback, illustrations  26cm 
<br/><br/> Rome in the East provides an illustrated study of the influence of Near Eastern culture on the Roman world, which overturns received wisdom about Rome as the bastion of European culture. In this controversial and provocative study Warwick Ball presents the story of Rome in the light of Rome's fascination with the East. He explains Rome's obsession with the Eastern world as a fascination of the new world for the old, of the mundane for the exotic, a love affair with the East that took literal form in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415243575, 0415243572 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 BC-476 AD<br/>Rome -- Civilization
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>937  / W299-B19