Rome : an empire of many nations : new perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity

Rome an empire of many nations : new perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity

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 ethn...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Price, Jonathan J., editor (editor), Finkelberg, Margalit, editor, Shaḥar, Yuval, 1953- editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022.
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
National characteristics, Roman.
Romans > Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity > Rome.
Jews > Rome > History.
Religious pluralism > Rome.
Group identity > Rome.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655594406719
Table of 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.

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