Roman imperial identities in the early Christian era

• Main Author: Perkins, Judith, 1944-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge monographs in classical studies.
• Subjects: Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.; Romans > Ethnic identity.; Christians > History. > Rome > Italy; Identification (Religion); HISTORY > Ancient.; Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.; Rome > Ethnic relations.; Electronic books.
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This book explores the ways in which fictional narratives were used to explore tensions between the individual and the dominant culture attendant on the rise of Christianity, and the displacement of Greeks from the hegemonic position in the Roman empire.

Table of Contents:

• Cosmopolitan identities
• False deaths and new bodies
• Constructing a patriarchal elite
• Resurrection and judicial bodies
• Place, space and voice
• Trimalchio: transformations and possibilities
• Resurrection and social perspectives
• The rhetoric of the maternal body
• Competing chronologies.