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Record Nr.

UNINA9910416505203321

Autore

Andrade Nathanael

Titolo

Reconsidering Roman power : Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions / / Katell Berthelot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2019

ISBN

2-7283-1411-X

Altri autori (Persone)

BarronCaroline

BerthelotKatell

CaponioEmmanuelle Rosso

DigeserElizabeth DePalma

DijkSam van

DohrmannNatalie B

DuboulozJulien

HayesChristine

InglebertHervé

LavanMyles

MorletSébastien

NijfOnno M. van

PriceJonathan J

RouxMarie

RussoFederico

SchwartzSeth

SharonNadav

VinzentMarkus

WilfandYael

WoolfGreg

Soggetti

History

Rome

pouvoir

Roman power

Rome History Empire, 284-476 Congresses

Rome Social conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Rome as the last universal empire in the ideological discourse of the 2nd century BCE / Federico Russo -- Rome and the four-empires scheme in Pre-Rabbinic Jewish literature / Nadav Sharon -- Comparer Rome, Alexandre et Babylone: la question de l'exceptionnalité de l'empire de Rome aux IVe-VIe siècles / Hervé Inglebert -- The rulers ruled / Greg Woolf -- Experiencing Roman power at Greek contests: Romaia in the Greek festival network / Onno van Nuf and Sam van Duk -- Personnifications de Rome et du pouvoir romain en Asie Mineure: quelques exemples / Emmanuelle Rosso Caponio -- The (lost) Arch of Titus: the visibility and prominence of victory in Flavian Rome / Caroline Barron -- Devastation: the destruction of populations and human landscapes and the Roman imperial project / Myles Lawn -- Apollo, Christ, and Mithras: Constantine in Gallia Belgica / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser -- Governer l'empire, se gouverner soi-même: réflexions sur la notion de maiestas dans la littérature de la République de du Principat / Julien Dubouloz -- Structural weaknesses in Rome's power? Greek historians' views on Roman stasis / Jonathan J. Price -- Power and piety: Roman and Jewish perspectives / Katell Berthelot -- Ce que peut l'Empire: les caractéristiques et les limites du pouvoir romain d'apres l'Histoire ecclésiastique d'Eusèbe de Césarée / Sébastien Morlet -- Animalizing the Romans: the use of animal metaphors by ancient authors to criticize Roman power or its agents / Marie Roux -- Alexander the Great in the Jerusalem Talmud and Genesis Rabbah: a critique of Roman power, greed and cruelty / Yael Wilfand -- Romans and Iranians: experiences of imperial governance in Roman Mesopotamia / Nathanael J. Andrade -- The Mishnah and the limits of Roman power / Seth Schwartz -- Jewish books and Roman readers: censorship, authorship, and the rabbinic library / Natalie Dohrmann -- Roman power through rabbinic eyes: tragedy or comedy? / Christine Hayes -- "Christianity": a response to Roman-Jewish conflict / Markus Vinzent.

Sommario/riassunto

Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their religious and political rituals; what they regarded as the empire’s distinctive features, as well as its particular limitations and weaknesses; what forms of criticism they developed towards the way Romans exercised power; and what kind of impact the encounter with Roman power had upon the ways they defined themselves and reflected about power in general. This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program “Judaism and Rome” (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.