期刊名称：Plekos: Periodicum OnLine zur Erforschung der Kommunikationsstrukturen in der Spätantike
电子版ISSN：1435-9626
出版年度：2007
卷号：9
页码：117-127
出版社：Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität München
摘要：Both volumes here under review have developed from the continuing interest on
the one hand in the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and, on the other, in Rome
and its empire under the Flavian dynasty, exemplified best in the progress
made with the Brill Josephus Project1 and in the publication in 2003, again
by Brill, of a massive book on various aspects of Flavian Rome.2 Both volumes
are also, in their own way, the result of recent efforts to bring these two issues
together, and found their origin in international colloquia held respectively in
Canada and Italy. The OUP volume, edited by J. Edmondson, S. Mason and
J. Rives, sprang from a combination of a conference and a graduate seminar at
York University in Toronto in May 2001, although the editors ¨C who emphasize
that ¡°a conference is one thing, a useful book something else¡± (vi) ¨C chose not
to include some of the original presentations and added new ones instead. The
Brill volume, edited by J. Sievers and G. Lembi, presents the proceedings of
a colloquium held in September 2003 at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and
the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, ¡°within walking distance of the
Arch of Titus and of Josephus¡¯ place of work, if he actually lived on the Quirinal
