Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire 96-235

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 (96235 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.