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

Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235: Cross-Cultural Interactions
ISBN-10
1316999947
ISBN-13
9781316999943
Category
Literary Criticism
Language
English
Published
2020-04-30
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Rebecca Langlands, Alice König, James Uden

Description

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.

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