A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

CHAPTER 28 Romans and Jews Erich S. Gruen Denying the Dichotomy Ethnic contests and conflicts (or what we call ethnic conflicts) ...

424 Erich S. Gruen repeatedly rehearsed, should be consigned to oblivion. The contest, such as it was, ended quite some time ago ...

Romans and Jews 425 in Greek and compiled over a period of centuries by Jewish and Christian would-be seers, give unerring expre ...

426 Erich S. Gruen the walls of the Temple, and actually to enter the Temple itself in 63BCE. The event had been preceded by int ...

Romans and Jews 427 Josephus does not hold back (BJ, 2.169–177, 2.236, 2.260, 2.270, 2.272, 2.277;Ant. 18.55–62, 20.110–112, 20. ...

428 Erich S. Gruen the peaceful, an enemy to truth and a promoter of lies (4 Ezra, 11.36–46). Rome is a fearsome monster, wreaki ...

Romans and Jews 429 Not necessarily. Tacitus’ remarks, even when most damaging, have a different orien- tation. His most sweepin ...

430 Erich S. Gruen famously quipped that, in the murderous household of Herod, it would be better to be Herod’s pig than his son ...

Romans and Jews 431 the war (Gruen 2002: 41–52). Romans did not ascribe the revolt itself to Jewish character traits, dispositio ...

432 Erich S. Gruen claim that the multitudes have long since shown great zeal for our faith, and that not a singleethnosexists, ...

Romans and Jews 433 society. It does not follow that the wordtheosebeisor the equivalent possessed a techni- cal significance th ...

434 Erich S. Gruen The application of modern categories and experiences to antiquity can often be most instructive and illuminat ...

Romans and Jews 435 Hall, Jonathan M. 2002.Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Isa ...

436 Erich S. Gruen Hall, Jonathan M. 1997.Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Although de ...

CHAPTER 29 Romans and Italians Gary D. Farney Roman Plural Identity I do think that all municipal men have two homelands (duae p ...

438 Gary D. Farney Rome. Just as Cicero attended his family’ssacraat Arpinum, so too did patrician Romans perform familial rites ...

Romans and Italians 439 this new state,domi nobilesfrom their respective areas of Italy, advanced by service and loyalty to the ...

440 Gary D. Farney outside the city of Rome, Claudius asks and answers: “What then? Is an Italian senator better than a provinci ...

Romans and Italians 441 Ancient Italic Identities Attempts to discern the identities of most Italic people before Rome are now a ...

442 Gary D. Farney in many legends. These heroes were wanderers, often located in the west, and one can suspect the Greeks for b ...