Table des matières

Katell Berthelot

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

• Rome as a universal empire in Polybius’ historiography
• Rome as the last universal empire

Nadav Sharon

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

• Roman imperialism and the Greco-Roman four-empires scheme
• Between the Greco-Roman and the Danielic schemes
• Pre-Destruction Jewish literature
• Post-Destruction Jewish literature
• The Fourth Sibylline Oracle
• Flavius Josephus
• 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch
• Conclusion

Hervé Inglebert

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

• Les perspectives religieuses chrétiennes
• Les comparaisons chrétiennes entre l’empire d’Alexandre et l’empire de Rome (337-539)
• Les comparaisons chrétiennes entre l’empire de Babylone et l’empire de Rome chez Orose et Augustin (417-425)

The dynamics of power

Greg Woolf

The rulers ruled

• Power at the Centre
• Power at the edge
• Power as capacity
• Webs of power
• Where the webs grow thinner

Onno M. van Nijf et Sam van Dijk

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

• Introduction
• Background
• Romaia from 200 BCE to 14 CE
• The festival setting
• Stratonikeia and Assos: creating a link through Romaia
• The Erotideia and Mouseia of Thespiae
• Conclusion: Romaia as an ingredient to Rome’s success

Emmanuelle Rosso Caponio

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

• Les multiples visages de Thea Romè à Aphrodisias
• L’arc de Pergè
• La donation de C. Vibius Salutaris à Éphèse
• Conclusion

Caroline Barron

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

• The Arch of Titus in the Circus Maximus
• Rebuilding Jerusalem in Flavian Rome
• Conclusion

Myles Lavan

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

• The iconography of victory
• The lexicon of aristocratic achievement
• Genocide
• Women, children and the old
• Conclusion

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

• L’anecdote de L. Quinctius Flamininus et ses enjeux : de la fides à la maiestas populi Romani
• Mores des magistrats romains, procès de repetundis et de maiestate, entre République et Principat
• Une controuersia devant le Sénat sur les mores des magistrats : Tac. Ann. 3.33-34
• De Cicéron à Sénèque le père : dimension éthique de la réflexion sur la figure du magistrat comme représentant de la cité
• Conclusion

Jonathan J. Price

Structural weaknesses in Rome’s power?

Greek historians’ views on Roman stasis

Katell Berthelot

Power and piety: Roman and Jewish perspectives

• Introduction
• Roman piety as the foundation of Roman power
• Roman piety and the support of the gods
• Roman impiety as a threat to Roman power
• Jewish piety and Roman power: A complex relationship
• Jewish superstition, impiety or sin as a cause of Roman victory
• Jewish piety as an obstacle to Roman power
• Israel as the cornerstone of Roman power
• Conclusion

Sébastien Morlet

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

• La puissance romaine : son étendue et ses caractéristiques
• Les trois limites du pouvoir romain
• La relativisation théologique d’une problématique traditionnelle
• Conclusion

Criticism of Roman power

Marie Roux

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

• The figure of the emperor-beast: the denunciation of the tyrant, persecutor and/or enemy of Rome
• The depiction of corrupt official(s) as wild and/or cruel beast(s)
• Animalising the Roman people to denounce their inherent violence, greed or impurity
• Conclusion and relation to Jewish sources

Yael Wilfand

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

• Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 3:1, 42c
• Jerusalem Talmud Baba Metzi‘a 2:4, 8c
• Genesis Rabbah 33:1
• Conclusion

Nathanael Andrade

Romans and Iranians: experiences of imperial governance in Roman Mesopotamia

• Third-Century Edessa and Upper Mesopotamia
• The Book of the Laws of the Countries
• Acts of the Apostle Thomas
• The Teaching of Addai
• Conclusion

The impact of Roman power upon Judaism

Seth Schwartz

The Mishnah and the limits of Roman power

• Historical background
• The spectrum of resistance lengthened
• "The Second Sophistic"
• Greco-Demotic magical texts
• Christian literature: Justin Martyr
• Cultural resistance to Rome
• The stakes of resistance

Natalie B. Dohrmann

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

• Aristeas and the Greek library
• Josephus and elite Roman readers
• Rabbis and the imagined Roman reader
• The book (reading)
• The sage (writing)
• Conclusion

Christine Hayes

Roman power through Rabbinic eyes: tragedy or comedy?

• Introduction
• This is Torah and this is its reward?
• Rome, the spoiler
• b. Avodah Zarah 2a-3b and b. Pesaḥim 119b: From divine comedy to moral tragedy
• Jacob and Esau and the anxiety of identity
• Conclusion

Markus Vinzent

"Christianity": a response to Roman-Jewish conflict

• Marcion, businessman and cult founder
• Romulus/Christ
• Marcion’s view of Rome
• The historico-political setting