Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity

Editors

Jonathan J. Price, Tel-Aviv University
Jonathan J. Price is the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History at Tel Aviv University, and the author of many studies on Greek and Roman historiography and Jewish history and epigraphy of the Roman period. His publications include Jerusalem Under Siege: The Collapse of the Jewish State, 66-70 C.E. (1992), Thucydides and Internal War (Cambridge, 2001), and editions of about 3000 Jewish inscriptions in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volumes I-V (2010-2020).

Margalit Finkelberg, Tel-Aviv University
Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics (emeritus) at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She has authored The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, 2005), Homer (2014; Hebrew), The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays (2020), and numerous scholarly articles. She is the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols.; 2011).

Yuval Shahar, Tel-Aviv University
Yuval Shahar is Senior Lecturer in Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. His published studies on the history, historiography and historical geography of Palestine in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods, include Josephus Geographicus: The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus (2004).

Contributors

Benjamin Isaac, Werner Eck, Daniela Dueck, Brent D. Shaw, Margalit Finkelberg, Cédric Brélaz, John Scheid, Ido Israelowich, Angelos Chaniotis, Erich S. Gruen, Alexander Yakobson, Youval Rotman, Jonathan J. Price, Yuval Shahar, Aharon Oppenheimer, Yotam Tepper, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah