ROMAN IDENTITY Between Ideal and Performance

Abstract

From the Introduction: «This volume was conceived within the framework of the project “Rome our Home: (Auto)biographical Tradition and the Shaping of Identity(ies)” (PTDC/LLT-OUT/28431/2017), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal. Approved by the FCT in 2018, this project examines the idea of identities (rather than identity) in European antiquity through biographical sources and other texts. This volume addresses questions posed in the first stage of the project, in particular, the issue of how the Romans perceived and constructed their own identity.