Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235

Cross-Cultural Interactions

Alice König, Rebecca Langlands, James Uden

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781108493932
• eBook ISBN: 9781108660525
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Timeline
• List of Abbreviations
• Map
• Introduction
• Part I Refiguring Roman and Greek Interactions
• Part II Imperial Infrastructure: Documents and Monuments
• Part III Cultural Translation and Transformation
• Afterword: Not There: Empire, Intertextuality, and Absence
• References
• Index