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Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing Impact of Empire Roman Empire, c. 200 BC–AD 476 Editorial Board of the series Impact of Empire (= Management Team of Impact of Empire) Angelos Chaniotis, Ségolène Demougin, Olivier Hekster, Gerda de Kleijn, Luuk de Ligt, Elio Lo Cascio, Bernhard Palme, Michael Peachin, Christian Witschel and Greg Woolf Executive Secretariat of the Series and the Network Lukas de Blois, Olivier Hekster Gerda de Kleijn and John Rich Radboud University of Nijmegen, Erasmusplein 1, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands Academic Board of the International Network Impact of Empire nicole belayche – stephane benoist – anthony birley lukas de blois – christer bruun – john drinkwater werner eck – peter funke – andrea giardina françoise van haeperen – johannes hahn – anne kolb fik meijer – onno van nijf – marie-therese raepsaet-charlier john rich – john richardson – bert van der spek richard talbert – willem zwalve VOLUME 18 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/imem Impact of Empire Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing Roman Empire, c. 200 BC–AD 476 Double Vision Editorial Board of the series Impact of Empire (= Management Team of Impact of Empire) Angelos Chaniotis, Ségolène Demougin, Edited by Olivier Hekster, Gerda de Kleijn, Luuk de Ligt, Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees Elio Lo Cascio, Bernhard Palme, Michael Peachin, Christian Witschel and Greg Woolf Executive Secretariat of the Series and the Network Lukas de Blois, Olivier Hekster Gerda de Kleijn and John Rich Radboud University of Nijmegen, Erasmusplein 1, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands Academic Board of the International Network Impact of Empire nicole belayche – stephane benoist – anthony birley lukas de blois – christer bruun – john drinkwater werner eck – peter funke – andrea giardina françoise van haeperen – johannes hahn – anne kolb fik meijer – onno van nijf – marie-therese raepsaet-charlier john rich – john richardson – bert van der spek richard talbert – willem zwalve VOLUME 18 LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: The Senate House in Rome, taken by Thomas Meloni Rønn. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roman rule in Greek and Latin writing : double vision / edited by Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees. pages cm. — (Impact of Empire; 18) “This volume has its origins in a conference hosted in April 2009 at the University of Southern Denmark as a collaborative venture between the School of History, University of Southern Denmark and the School of Classics, University of St Andrews.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-27738-0 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-27828-8 (e-book) I. Madsen, Jesper Majbom, editor. II. Rees, Roger, editor. PA3014.P65R65 2014 880.09358—dc23 2014017109 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 1572-0500 isbn 978-90-04-27738-0 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-27828-8 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Global Oriental and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction: A Roman Greek 1 Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees 1 Patriotism and Ambitions: Intellectual Response to Roman Rule in the High Empire 16 Jesper Majbom Madsen 2 Becoming Wolf, Staying Sheep 39 Ewen Bowie 3 Accommodation, Opposition or Other? Luke-Acts’ Stance Towards Rome 79 John Moles 4 Adopting the Emperor: Pliny’s Praise-giving as Cultural Appropriation 105 Roger Rees 5 The Representation of Greek Diplomacy in Tacitus 124 Bruce Gibson 6 Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War 144 Rhiannon Ash 7 ‘Heus tu rhetorisce’: Gellius, Cicero, Plutarch, and Roman Study Abroad 163 Joseph A. Howley 8 Triple Vision: Ulpian of Tyre on the Duties of the Proconsul 193 Jill Harries 9 Greek History in a Roman Context: Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander 210 Jesper Carlsen vi contents 10 Herodian on Greek and Roman Failings 224 Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen 11 Images of Elite Community in Philostratus: Re-Reading the Preface to the Lives of the Sophists 246 Jason König Bibliography 271 Index 296 Acknowledgements This volume has its origins in a conference hosted in April 2009 at the University of Southern Denmark as a collaborative venture between the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark and the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. For their support in funding the conference, we are grateful to both institutions, to the Danish Council of Independent Research (Humanities) and Ingeniør N. M. Knudsens’ Fond. Thanks too to Kirsten Dige Larsen and Karen Fog Rasmussen of the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark and to Margaret Goudie of the School of Classics, University of St Andrews for their help with practical and administrative aspects of the conference. Greg Woolf, Tim Whitmarsh, John Rich and Ewen Bowie gave us timely and generous advice as we saw the project through to publication. Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees introduction A Roman Greek Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees On his round trip of the Black Sea the Roman senator and legatus Augusti of Cappadocia, L. Flavius Arrianus from Nicomedia in Bithynia, wrote an account of the area to the emperor Hadrian. His Periplus is styled as a letter.1 In it, Arrian describes the physical and human geography of the eastern seaboard of the Black Sea, from the south round to the east, and northwards to Pantikapaion on the Crimea. If Hadrian had commissioned the report and was expecting a reliable account of contemporary affairs in the region, he would have been dis- appointed. Arrian’s Periplus draws its inspiration from Xenophon’s Anabasis, written more than five centuries previously; Xenophon is almost the only ref- erence point in the Periplus, and provides the authority and model for Arrian.2 Less than a contemporary document, the Periplus reads as a work of archaising literature.3 But some exceptions work their way in. Like Xenophon before him, Arrian reached the Black Sea coast at the city of Trapezus (modern Trabzon), where he reported to Hadrian on some recent religious monuments, including two altars. καὶ οἱ βωμοὶ ἀνεστᾶσιν ἤδη, λίθου μέντοι γε τοῦ τραχέος, καὶ τὰ γράμματα διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ εὔδηλα κεχάρακται, τὸ δὲ Ἑλληνικὸν ἐπίγραμμα καὶ ἡμαρτημένως γέγραπται, οἷα δὴ ὑπὸ βαρβάρων γραφέν. ἔγνωκα οὖν τούς τε βωμοὺς λίθου λευκοῦ ἀναθεῖναι, καὶ τὰ ἐπιγράμματα ἐγχαράξαι εὐσήμοις τοῖς γράμμασιν. The altars are already set up, through in rather rough stone, and as such the inscribed letters are not particularly clear; the Greek inscription is also inaccurately carved, such as that written by barbarians. I therefore decided to rebuild the altars in white stone, and to carve the inscriptions in clear letters (Arrian, Periplus, 1.1–4.; translation Liddle, adapted) 1 The texts opens Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Τραϊανῷ Ἀδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ Ἀρριανὸς χαίρειν (‘Arrian sends greetings to the Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus’); on Arrian’s minor works, see Bosworth (1993); on epistolary formulae, see Gibson and Morrison 2007: 3. 2 See e.g. Periplus 1 (bis). 3 Arrian even styles himself ‘Xenophon’ in his Order of Battle against the Alans. See Carlsen in chapter nine below. © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���4 | doi ��.��63/9789004�78�88_�0�
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