Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108493932)

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.

Author: Alice Kig
ISBN-10: 1108493939
ISBN-13: 9781108493932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2020
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.09h x 6.31w x 1.00d