Beyond Romans and others: identities in the long second century / Myles Lavan -- The noise-lovers: cultures of speech and sound in second century Rome / James Uden -- Plutarch and Roman exemplary ethics: cultural interactions /Rebecca Langlands -- Patronage, cultural differences and literary interactivity: the case of Pliny and Plutarch / Dana Fields -- The Romans of republican history: narrative tension and resolution in Florus, Appian and Chariton / Adam M. Kemezis -- Tactical interactions: dialogues between Greece and Rome in the military manuals of Aelian nad Arrian / Alice Konig -- Constructing a neew imperial paradoxography: Phlegon of Tralles and his sources / Ekkly E. Shannon-Henderson -- A formation of a Christian archive? The case of Justin Martyr and the imperial rescript / Laura Salah Nasrallah -- Keeping/losing records, keeping/losing faith : Suetonius and Justin do the document / Tom Geue -- Shaping buildings into stories: architectural ekphrasis and the Epistle to the Ephesians in Roman literary culture / J. Albert Harrill -- Architectural criticism in the Roman world and the limits of literary interaction / Christopher Siwicki -- Dying for justice: narratives of Roman judicial authority in the high empire / Caillan Davenport -- Cultural translation adn transformation -- Bardaisan's disciples and ethnographic knowledge in the Roman empire / Nathanael Andrade -- Chaldean interactions / Johannes Haubold -- Gilgamos in Rome: Aelian NA 12.21 / Steven D. Smith -- Afterword: Not there: empire, intertextuality, and absence / Natalie B. Dohrmann.
Summary:
"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)."-- Provided by publisher.
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