Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions

ISBN-13: 9781108713719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Alice König; Rebecca Langlands; James Uden

Opis

Explores new ways of understanding texts, practices and ideas that connected different cultural and religious groups in the Roman Empire in the era from Nerva to the Severans (96-235 CE). Its sixteen chapters are written by leading scholars of classics, early Christianity, Jewish and Near Eastern history.

Spis treści

Introduction Alice König, Rebecca Langlands and James Uden; Part I. Refiguring Roman and Greek Interactions: 1. Beyond Romans and others: identities in the long second century Myles Lavan; 2. The noise-lovers: cultures of speech and sound in second-century Rome James Uden; 3. Plutarch and Roman exemplary ethics: cultural interactions Rebecca Langlands; 4. Patronage, cultural difference and literary interactivity: the case of Pliny and Plutarch Dana Fields; 5. The romance of Republican history: narrative tension and resolution in Florus, Appian and Chariton Adam M. Kemezis; 6. Tactical interactions: dialogues between Greece and Rome in the military manuals of Aelian and Arrian Alice König; Part II. Imperial Infrastructure: Documents and Monuments: 7. Constructing a new imperial paradoxography: Phlegon of Tralles and his sources Kelly Shannon-Henderson; 8. A formation of a Christian archive? The case of Justin Martyr and an imperial rescript Laura Salah Nasrallah; 9. Keeping/losing records, keeping/losing faith: Suetonius and Justin do the document Tom Geue; 10. Shaping buildings into stories: architectural ekphrasis and the Epistle to the Ephesians in Roman literary culture J. Albert Harrill; 11. Architectural criticism in the Roman world and the limits of literary interaction Christopher Siwicki; 12. Dying for justice: narratives of Roman judicial authority in the High Empire Caillan Davenport; Part III. Cultural Translation and Transformation: 13. Bardaisan's disciples and ethnographic knowledge in the Roman Empire Nathanael Andrade; 14. Chaldean interactions Johannes Haubold; 15. Gilgamos in Rome: Aelian NA 12.21 Steven D. Smith; Afterword. Not there: empire, intertextuality, and absence Natalie B. Dohrmann; References; General index.