Transcript Racial Concepts in the Early Roman Empire/Late Republic Rome

Racial Concepts in the Early Roman
Empire/Late Republic Rome
By Christian Moreno
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Dillon
Rome and America
• Classics tell us
about ourselves,
makes us question
notions.
• Republic=“Res
publica”-public
thing.
Question• . Looking back at Roman society through the
lens of the American experience of slavery,
what can we learn about Roman perceptions
of race and slavery in relation to current and
past American society?
Previous Work
• Most work focuses on individual aspects of
Rome and America, not a synthesis.
• I will contribute to this discussion by providing
a comparison between the two.
Rome
• Slavery intrinsically tied to
military conquest.
• Prejudice in the form of
racial stereotypes existed,
“environmental theory”.
Ante-bellum South
• Slavery intrinsically tied to
race.
• Intrinsically tied to
prejudice/racial tension,
seen to this day.
Methods
• The bulk of research will be examining primary
sources such as writing and artwork, as well as
reading other scholars’ interpretations of
these sources.
• Many of these primary sources and scholarly
works I can access via LMU’s network of
research databases.
Bibliography
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Isaac, Benjamin. "Proto-Racism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity." World Archaeology
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Bradley, K. R. Slavery and Society at Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. Print.
Clarke, John R. "`Just Like Us': Cultural Construction Of Sexuality And Race In Roman
Art." Art Bulletin 78.4 (1996): 599. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.
Gladiator. Dir. Ridley Scott. Perf. Russel Crow. Dreamworks L.L.C and Universal
Studios, 2000. DVD.
Houston, Gerorge W. "The Slave and Freedman Personnel of Public Libraries in
Ancient Rome." Project Muse. The American Philological Association, 2002.
Web. 11 Oct. 2015.
Julian the Apostate. "Against the Gallilaeans." Tertullian.org. Trans. Wilmer Wright.
N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.
Reynolds, John Mark, Dr. "Historical Parochialism: American Slavery Is Not Ancient
Slavery." Patheos.com. N.p., 5 Dec. 2013. Web. 5 Oct. 2015.
Thompson, Lloyd. "Roman Perceptions of Blacks." Scholia (1994): n. pag. Web. 11
Oct. 2015.
Ward, Julie K., and Tommy Lee Lott. "Ethnos and Nature: The Climate Theory."
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Print.