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2019, Classical Review
Review of J. Peltonen, Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, 150 BC to AD 600. Pp. x+260, fig., ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
Angela Bellia, Regine Pruzsinszky, Mireia López-Bertran, Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Manolis Mikrakis, Elçin Doğan Gürbüzer, Maria Chidiroglou, Aura Piccioni
Harvard Theological Review
Triclinium Trialectics: The Triclinium as Contested Space in Early Roman Palestine (2020)2020 •
This study draws on critical spatial theory to analyze the earliest archaeological and literary evidence of the triclinium, or Roman dining room, in Early Roman Palestine. It begins by examining the archaeological evidence of triclinia and similar banqueting spaces in Palestine, addressing their dating, their differing settings, and how their appearance and diffusion reflects socioeconomic and cultural changes under Roman influence. Next, it examines literary constructions of banqueting spaces in the Parables of Enoch, Testament of Moses, and "Q Sayings Gospel." It demonstrates that these sources all seem to envision a triclinium setting in which elites eat, drink, and engage in all sorts of revelry while reclining on couches. The final section is devoted to critical spatial analysis of both the archaeological and literary data. It argues that these sources all evince, in varying ways, the interpenetration of local and global spaces rather than the unilateral "Romanization" of provincial space. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/triclinium-trialectics-the-triclinium-as-contested-space-in-early-roman-palestine/354928660E45F6A35B32D70F38E2FB63
The Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (J. Marincola, ed.)
'The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus'2007 •
Judged to be historically superficial, marred by an overbearing urge to please the emperor Tiberius, and a vehicle for imperial propaganda, Velleius' work has been given generally short shrift in or omitted from most discussions of Roman historical writing. This disdain, unfortunately reflected in the paucity of English translations of Velleius, has certainly been tempered in light of reevaluations of his work. Tony Woodman's magisterial commentaries on Book 2, in particular, represented a watershed moment, both restoring a measure of dignity to Velleius and signaling the profound importance of this historian to our understanding of the Augustan and Tiberian periods. One particularly interesting aspect of the brief Historia (contained in two books yet covering the period from the founding of Rome down to 29 CE) is in the manner it bridges and even masks the transition from republic to principate. In much the same way as the texts of Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus reflect the circumstances of their production, the value of Velleius lies in his place as one of the chief literary artefacts of the immediate post-Augustan era and thus a product of the emerging principate. His perspective is valuable, for it furnishes an antidote to the dark cynicism of the later Tacitus, who has few doubts that the Augustan principate sounded the death knell of the Roman republic. Modern readers, however, tend to find the cynical Tacitean view, which is admittedly expressed in a powerful and engrossing narrative, more attractive if not more credible, the generally cheery optimism of Velleius looking strained and suspicious in comparison with the detached stance and pessimism of Tacitus. Putting aside all cynicism, however, and reading Velleius in context rather than in hindsight, one hears the voice of a man who not only takes his task with some seriousness but also believes with equal seriousness that the republic survives under Tiberius – that the Tiberian period represents the true fulfillment of the Augustan Marincola: Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography 1405102162_4_040 Page Proof page 411 19.2.2007 12:35pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradaban
This Survey Chart was created for Dr. Andreas Köstenberger and the biblical backgrounds Ph.D. seminar at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary for Second Temple Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. This chart surveys the key literature, historical timeline, and information surrounding the Second Temple period as well as offers a select bibliography for each section for further research. This 234 page survey chart is divided into nine major sections: Second Temple History, Greek OT (LXX), OT Apocrypha, OT Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo and Josephus, Targums and Rabbinical Literature, NT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Greco-Roman literature.
The children of Herodotus: Greek …
Curtius Rufus, the Macedonian Mutiny at Opis and Alexander's Iranian Policy in 324 BC2008 •
The Cambridge Social Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.
Land/Homeland, Story/History: the Social Landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus2019 •
in The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World, Volume II. From the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity, edited by Michele Renee Salzman and Willliam Adler, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge - New York 2013, pp. 398-420
Judaism in Italy and the WestScripta Classica Israelica
Alexander's friends in the Alexander Romance2013 •
Kenneth Moore (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great (Leiden, 2018)
Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds2018 •
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The Brill Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great, ed. K. Moore (Brill, 2018)
'Plutarch’s Alexander’2018 •
Greek Historical Writing, by T. Scanlon, Wiley Blackwell,
Greek Historians in the Roman Era, ch. 82015 •
Journal of Law and Religion
Biblical Law in Greco-Roman Attire: the Case of Levirate Marriage in Late Antique Christian Legal Traditions2019 •
Published in L.I. Hau, A. Meeus & B. Sheridan (eds.) Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke (Studia Hellenistica 58), Leuven: Peeters
Diodoros the Bilingual Provincial: Greek Language and Multilingualism in Bibliotheke XVII2018 •
Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke
L.I. Hau, A. Meeus & B. Sheridan (eds.), Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke (Studia Hellenistica 58), Leuven 2018.2018 •
Greece and Rome
(2019) Pωμαιοκρατία ≠ Roman occupation: (mis)perceptions of the Roman period in Greece2019 •
Dead Sea Discoveries 25
Damascus: From the Fall of Persia to the Roman Conquest2018 •
BA Thesis, University of Warwick.
Greek Constructions of the Persian ‘Other’: Continuity and Change From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Fourth Century A.D. (NOT EDITED FOR PUBLICATION)2009 •
Wiley Online Library
Perspectives on the Macedonians From Greece, Rome, and BeyondJournal of the American Academy of Religion
Mimic Jews and Jewish Mimics in Antiquity: A Non-Girardian Approach to Mimetic Rivalry2009 •
Biblica
Textual History of the Account of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, Biblica 98,4 (2017), 600–6092017 •
Bibliotheca Sacra
Consular Years and Sabbatical Years in the Life of Herod the Great2020 •