Rome : an empire of many nations : new perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity / edited by Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Price, Jonathan J., editor.

Finkelberg, Margalit, editor.

Shaḥar, Yuval, 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Roman.

Romans--Ethnic identity.

Romans.

Ethnicity--Rome.

Ethnicity.

Jews--Rome--History.

Jews.

Religious pluralism--Rome.

Religious pluralism.

Group identity--Rome.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire

From Rome to Constantinople / Benjamin Isaac

The Imperial Senate / Werner Eck

Ethnic types and stereotypes in ancient Latin idioms / Daniela Dueck

Keti, son of Masawalat : ethnicity and empire / Brent D. Shaw

Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire

Roman reception of the Trojan War / Margalit Finkelberg

Claiming Roman origins : Greek cities and the Roman colonial pattern / Cédric Brélaz

Roman theologies in the cities of Italy and the provinces / John Scheid

The involvement of provincial cities in the administration of school teaching / Ido Israelowich

Many nations, one night? Historical aspects of the night in the Roman Empire / Angelos Chaniotis

Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire : the case of the Jews

Religious pluralism in the Roman Empire : did Judaism test the limits of Roman tolerance? / Erich S. Gruen

Rome's attitude to Jews and Judea after the Great Rebellion

beyond raison d'état? / Alexander Yakobson

Between ethnos and populus : the boundaries of being a Jew / Youval Rotman

Local identities of synagogue communities in the Roman Empire / Jonathan J. Price

The good the bad and the middling : Roman emperors in Talmudic literature / Yuval Shahar

The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi / Aharon Oppenheimer

Iudaea/Palaestina

The Roman Legionary Base in Legio-Kefar 'Othnay

the evidence from the small finds / Yotam Tepper

The camp of the Legion X Fretensis and the emergence of Aelia Capitolina / Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah.

Notes:

Originally published in 2021, ISBN 9781108479455, Reissued as Open Access in 2022.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009256193 (ebook)

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