New book on the Romans (?"Romans")

* "obscured behind a name made up by later generations"  *

* a "history of western denialism" *


*"why the commonly accepted phrase 'Byzantine empire' is an anachronism"   *

*"scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two
centuries for political reasons"*


*"Why does my field not do this? . . . there's no definitions of what we
mean by 'empire' in that context . . . ethnicities of the Byzantine Empire
. . . this is never discussed either"*


*"The efforts by the Catholic Church to de-legitimize the Eastern Empire as
the legatee of ancient Rome denied the self-identification of its residents
as Romans"*


*etc.*



*I would be very interested to hear on the list from anyone who has read  (
OSU Department of Classics Chair )  Anthony Kaldellis' _Romanland :
Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium_  ( published just over nine months ago
under Harvard U.Pr.'s Belknap Press imprint -- ISBN 9780674986510 )  and
has strong feelings about his claims, arguments, methodology, and/or
conclusions .   *


*I'm particularly interested in any comments/arguments from anyone who  (
strongly ? )  disagrees with the case which Kaldellis is making in his new
book .   *


*Or, does in fact everyone  ( now finally ? )  agree ?   *


*[ The above quotations are ones I which took -- as an inducement -- from
H.U.Pr.'s webpage at *

*https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hup.harvard.edu%2Fcatalog.php%3Fisbn%3D9780674986510&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Ccecd978ce0f64d513b1708d7951d9c25%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637141826717751629&sdata=6wqNpvlodjRDVuqqn6TpvlHIqANO61YUOwjVyi9FOq4%3D&reserved=0
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*and the New Books Network webpage at *

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, *

*both including the podcast interview with the author . ]   *



*- Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland  *