Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome

The Townsend Lectures An immensely prolific scholar of the last three centuries of the Roman Republic, Gruen has been moving toward studies of the more purely cultural aspects of the period. [He] considers the means and the extent to which the Roman aristocracy assimilated Greek culture and, in assimilating it, asserted their own separate Roman identity… . The book illustrates Gruen’s strengths: mastery of the ancient evidence and ability to argue it. -Choice