The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's “success” in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues.
Author(s): Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 427
City: Cambridge
Cover
Half-title page
Frontiespiece
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire
1 From Rome to Constantinople
2 The Imperial Senate: Center of a Multinational Imperium
3 Ethnic Types and Stereotypes in Ancient Latin Idioms
4 Keti, Son of Maswalat: Ethnicity and Empire
Part II Culture and Identity in the Roman Empire
5 Roman Reception of the Trojan War
6 Claiming Roman Origins: Greek Cities and the Roman Colonial Pattern
7 Roman Theologies in the Roman Cities of Italy and the Provinces
8 The Involvement of Provincial Cities in the Administration of School Teaching
9 Many Nations, One Night?: Historical Aspects of the Night in the Roman Empire
Part III Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire: The Case of the Jews
10 Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire: Did Judaism Test the Limits of Roman Tolerance?
11 Rome’s Attitude to Jews after the Great Rebellion – Beyond Raison d’état?
12 Between ethnos and populus: The Boundaries of Being a Jew
13 Local Identities of Synagogue Communities in the Roman Empire
14 The Good, the Bad and the Middling: Roman Emperors in Talmudic Literature
15 The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi
Part IV Iudaea/Palaestina
16 The Roman Legionary Base in Legio-Kefar ‘Othnay – The Evidence from the Small Finds
17 The Camp of the Legion X Fretensis and the Starting Point of Aelia Capitolina
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum
