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

Cambridge University Press, 4/30/2020
EAN 9781108493932, ISBN10: 1108493939

Hardcover, 424 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This book explores new ways of analysing interactions between different linguistic, cultural, and religious communities across the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva to the Severans (96–235 CE). Bringing together leading scholars in classics with experts in the history of Judaism, Christianity and the Near East, it looks beyond the Greco-Roman binary that has dominated many studies of the period, and moves beyond traditional approaches to intertextuality in its study of the circulation of knowledge across languages and cultures. Its sixteen chapters explore shared ideas about aspects of imperial experience - law, patronage, architecture, the army - as well as the movement of ideas about history, exempla, documents and marvels. As the second volume in the Literary Interactions series, it offers a new and expansive vision of cross-cultural interaction in the Roman world, shedding light on connections that have gone previously unnoticed among the subcultures of a vast and evolving Empire.

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.