Rome in the East <subTitle>The Transformation of an Empire</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Ball, Warwick</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">5:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Routledge</publisher> <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>523tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>26cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Warwick Ball</note> <subject> <topic>Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 BC-476 AD</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Rome -- Civilization</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">937</classification> <classification authority="ddc">W299-B19</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780415243575, 0415243572</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13291/ro.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13291/ro.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071232.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>