Introduction Alice König, Rebecca Langlands and James Uden; Part I. Refiguring Roman and Greek Interactions: 1. Beyond Romans and others: identities in the long second century Myles Lavan; 2. The noise-lovers: cultures of speech and sound in second-century Rome James Uden; 3. Plutarch and Roman exemplary ethics: cultural interactions Rebecca Langlands; 4. Patronage, cultural difference and literary interactivity: the case of Pliny and Plutarch Dana Fields; 5. The romance of Republican history: narrative tension and resolution in Florus, Appian and Chariton Adam M. Kemezis; 6. Tactical interactions: dialogues between Greece and Rome in the military manuals of Aelian and Arrian Alice König; Part II. Imperial Infrastructure: Documents and Monuments: 7. Constructing a new imperial paradoxography: Phlegon of Tralles and his sources Kelly Shannon-Henderson; 8. A formation of a Christian archive? The case of Justin Martyr and an imperial rescript Laura Salah Nasrallah; 9. Keeping/losing records, keeping/losing faith: Suetonius and Justin do the document Tom Geue; 10. Shaping buildings into stories: architectural ekphrasis and the Epistle to the Ephesians in Roman literary culture J. Albert Harrill; 11. Architectural criticism in the Roman world and the limits of literary interaction Christopher Siwicki; 12. Dying for justice: narratives of Roman judicial authority in the High Empire Caillan Davenport; Part III. Cultural Translation and Transformation: 13. Bardaisan's disciples and ethnographic knowledge in the Roman Empire Nathanael Andrade; 14. Chaldean interactions Johannes Haubold; 15. Gilgamos in Rome: Aelian NA 12.21 Steven D. Smith; Afterword. Not there: empire, intertextuality, and absence Natalie B. Dohrmann; References; General index.