%0 eBook %M Solr-EB000723865 %A Dench, Emma %I Oxford University Press %D 2005 %C Oxford %G English %@ 9780191710018 %T Romulus' asylum : Roman identities from the age of Alexander to the age of Hadrian %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198150510.001.0001?nosfx=y %X Who did the Romans think they were? They were a people scattered round the ancient Mediterranean world, yet they imagined a common identity for themselves, particularly through shared myths and history. This book shows how ancient means of constructing identity compares with modern means