Contributions to the third and final unit, "Josephus: Historiography and Literature in Flavian Rome," explore to what, if any, degree Josephus was influenced by Greek and Roman literary and historiographical trends: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, From Exempla to Exemplar?

When all the third- and second-world curators of biennials (Mosquera for Havana, Kortun for Istanbul, Paulo Herkenhoff for Sao Paolo) were mapping the virtues that are now taken to be exemplary--such as specific interrogations of urban sites, penetrating relations with history, and strong interactions with local educational systems--no one got up to defend the recent exempla in Venice itself.

Anderson [Leiden: Brill, 1998], 112-208), elaborates on four essential rhetorical moves: (a) exordium, (b) narratio, (c) argumentatio, and (d) peroratio, but he also discusses several optional or subordinate moves, including (e) proemium, (f) insinuatio, (g) initium, (h) digressio, (i) transitus, (j) amplificatio, (k) exempla, and (l) recapitulatio.