Reconsidering Roman power: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions

Reconsidering Roman power: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions

Katell Berthelot (dir.)

Collection de l'École française de Rome

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 ...

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Introduction

Rome and previous empires : Translatio Imperii and comparative perspectives

Federico Russo

Rome as the last universal empire in the ideological discourse of the 2^nd century BCE

Nadav Sharon

Rome and the four-empires scheme in Pre-Rabbinic Jewish literature

Hervé Inglebert

Comparer Rome, Alexandre et Babylone : la question de l’exceptionnalité de l’empire de Rome aux IV^e-VI^e siècles

The dynamics of power

Greg Woolf

The rulers ruled

Onno M. van Nijf et Sam van Dijk

Experiencing Roman power at Greek contests: Romaia in the Greek festival network

Emmanuelle Rosso Caponio

Personnifications de Rome et du pouvoir romain en Asie Mineure : quelques exemples

Caroline Barron

The (lost) Arch of Titus: the visibility and prominence of victory in Flavian Rome

Myles Lavan

Devastation: the destruction of populations and human landscapes and the Roman imperial project

Elizabeth DePalma Digeser

Apollo, Christ, and Mithras: Constantine in Gallia Belgica

Reflections on the limitations of Roman power and its weaknesses

Julien Dubouloz

Gouverner l’empire, se gouverner soi-même : réflexions sur la notion de maiestas dans la littérature de la République et du Principat

Jonathan J. Price

Structural weaknesses in Rome’s power?

Greek historians’ views on Roman stasis

Katell Berthelot

Power and piety: Roman and Jewish perspectives

Sébastien Morlet

Ce que peut l’Empire : les caractéristiques et les limites du pouvoir romain d’après l’Histoire ecclésiastique d’Eusèbe de Césarée

Criticism of Roman power

Marie Roux

Animalizing the Romans: the use of animal metaphors by ancient authors to criticize Roman power or its agents

Yael Wilfand

Alexander the Great in the Jerusalem Talmud and Genesis Rabbah: a critique of Roman power, greed and cruelty

Nathanael Andrade

Romans and Iranians: experiences of imperial governance in Roman Mesopotamia

The impact of Roman power upon Judaism

Seth Schwartz

The Mishnah and the limits of Roman power

Natalie B. Dohrmann

Jewish books and Roman readers: censorship, authorship, and the rabbinic library

Christine Hayes

Roman power through Rabbinic eyes: tragedy or comedy?

Markus Vinzent

"Christianity": a response to Roman-Jewish conflict