Roman Identity

Dench, Emma

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“…The national animal per se has no history, as the collective identity of nations has only recently become an essential source for identification (Greenfeld, Eastwood, 2009). Although the perennial definition of the nation posits that nations are pre‐modern, national identity before WW1 was overshadowed by religious identification or identification with a particular empire, such as the Roman or Austrian empire (Dench, 2012; Lindström, 2008). Hence, this section will briefly outline the national animal’s predecessors.…”

Section: A Brief History Of National Animalsmentioning

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Political animals in the Modern World: An Investigation of the National Animal Symbol

Zhu,

Ilsinger

2023

Studies Ethnicity & National

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National symbols play a significant role in contemporary politics by shaping national identities. However, national animals receive little attention in the scholarship. This paper provides a study of the animal as a national symbol, proposing a possible model to fit the national animal into the rich nationalism literature. It generates theories about the formation, strengths, challenges of the national animal, supported with case study analysis. The central hypothesis is that the national animal is a distinctive national symbol. It is a symbol of the national rather than of the nation. It is not a purely top‐down political design; it embeds concrete traits; and it creates space for international interaction. Theoretically, the national animal can forge a strong national identity. However, many real‐life challenges prevent it from becoming prominent in modern nations.

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Section: A Brief History Of National Animalsmentioning

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Political animals in the Modern World: An Investigation of the National Animal Symbol

Zhu,

Ilsinger

2023

Studies Ethnicity & National

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“…As I have set out, however, there are nonetheless differences in 86 Wallace-Hadrill 2008: 41. 87 J. M. Hall 2002: 22-3; for a (relatively unusual) critique of Hall's position, see Dench 2010: 268. Dench 2010 in general provides a useful summary of scholarship on Roman identity, and its limitations.…”

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Citizens of the Wor(l)d? Metaphor and the Politics of Roman Language

Elder

2022

J. Rom. Stud.

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In his discussion of Roman wind-names, Seneca the Younger employs a striking metaphor to describe the integration of the name of the south-east wind, Eurus, into Latin. The name Eurus, Seneca says, has been ‘granted citizenship’. This is one of six instances of the metaphor of ‘granting citizenship to words’ in surviving ancient texts. In this article, I use this metaphor as an entry-point to reconsider the importance of citizenship and language to ancient conceptions of Roman identity and status. The metaphor is revelatory of ancient thinking about what citizenship meant, what it depended on, and to whom and on whose authority it should be granted, questions that became urgent as citizenship spread across the Empire. Different versions of the metaphor offer tellingly divergent views of citizenship and of language. These reflect the tensions between origin and culture, inclusion and exclusion, cosmopolitanism and nativism, in contemporary notions of what it meant to be or belong as Roman.

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Roman Identity

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Political animals in the Modern World: An Investigation of the National Animal Symbol

Political animals in the Modern World: An Investigation of the National Animal Symbol

Citizens of the Wor(l)d? Metaphor and the Politics of Roman Language

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