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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Principate"”.
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From republic to principate: change and continuity in Roman coinage
… nature and chronology of the formation of the Principate. The first chapter discusses methodological problems. I argue that the current organization and classification of Roman coinage - especially the treatment of all post-31/27 BC coins as "imperial" - have prejudged and obscured the value of …
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'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
… the most widely seen rhetorical media in the Principate, arguing that as the Principate became more entrenched, the need to emphasize the relationship between the gods and Augustus faded away. Chapter four examines the popularization of the Augustan political myth and depiction of citizenships …
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Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate
… and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate". Patronage is defined as a reciprocal exchange relationship between men of unequal social status (municipal patronage is excluded). The work falls into three parts. In the first the language of patronage (patronus, cliens, amicus, …
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Defining the alter orbis : the Roman view of Parthia in the early Principate
… orbis was developed. For the Romans of the early Principate, the kingdom of the Arsacids represented the antithesis of their own values, embodying the vices of despotism and licentiousness. In the absence of a decisive military victory, the Roman people used this image of the Parthians to assert …
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Politicising Manumission and Freedmen in the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate
… during the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate by reinterpreting the literary and legal evidence and critically questioning the distorted narratives presented by our biased sources. This reassessment is in line with recent developments in two areas of Roman studies. First, recent work …
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Far from the dragging plough : veterans in trade and business during the Roman Principate.
In the study of the Roman world, few demographics receive scanter attention from modern scholarship than those time-served veterans who eschewed an agricultural life in favour of setting up in business for themselves. This study, then, is an examination of this class of men and the evidence we have …
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Resistance to the Rise of the Principate: An Analysis of Literary Allusions to Augustus’ Rivals
… to Augustus and the establishment of the Principate was pervasive and originating from all social strata. After examining incidents of political resistance and social unrest, the project analyzes literary allusions to those who were killed or exiled while challenging Augustus’ rise to …
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Suetonius’ Organizational Craft
… it mirrors the form that power takes in the principate and, therefore, constitutes a reading of the principate itself. Suetonius organizes his biographies around investigations into these discrete topics that pertain to the office of the princeps. Topical organization and topical analysis are …
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Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors
… decades of civil war, Augustus founded the Principate on the notion that the traditions of the Republic had been restored and that Augustus was not a monarch but an ordinary citizen serving his nation. This modest image of the emperor was characterized by his ceremonial refusal of honors and …
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Unit sizes in the Late Roman army
… must be made with caution. Even for the Principate unit sizes are not easy to establish, although it seems likely that legions contained about 5,000 men each, and auxiliary units approximately their nominal quingenary or milliary strengths. Documentary evidence is limited but does tend to …
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Violence and state response in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius
… violence during the transition from Republic to Principate. Many of the provisions against violence which evolved during the course of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius were a direct response to the violence of the Late Republic. They were to a large extent, new and revolutionary, but were not …
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Public libraries and public benefaction in the Roman Empire
… libraries as public benefactions during the principate. It argues that while euergetism typically involved an exchange of amenities from wealthy donors for approval from the non-elite citizens of a community, libraries were a form of munificence aimed entirely by elites at other elites. The …
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Divus Augustus Pater: Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus
… several key issues of the development of the principate. Why does a conservative republican like Tiberius accept responsibility for consolidating a virtually hereditary monarchy? And more importantly, how does an unpopular ruler like Tiberius secure the acceptance of Augustus' position in the …
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Suetonius and the Politics of Private Life
… ‘private life’ reflects the structure of the principate and engages with the politics of his own time. My thesis consists of three chapters. The first analyses the role of private life in two (quasi )biographical texts that are near contemporaries to Suetonius’ *Caesars*, Tacitus’ *Agricola* …
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Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
… symbolism of renewal suggests a renewal of the principate and the arts. I suggest that satire was the ideal vehicle for the literary embodiment of the grotesque aesthetic.</p> <p>The Apocolocyntosis is prototypical of Neronian grotesque satire: its portrayal of Claudius' grotesque body, its …
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Proměna císařského portrétu ve 3. a 4. století
… Military Emperors, crisis, Gallic Roman Empire, principate, dominate, tetrarchy, Gallienus, Aurelianus, Probus, Diocletianus, Constantinus, Julianus Apostata
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… the nature of imperial succession and the Roman principate more generally. Chapter 1 shows that the well-studied sanctions the senate passed against Domitian were just a first step of a complex process in which his memory was reshaped, through the production of new commemorative media, whose …
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The politics of public records at Rome in the late republic and early empire
… Translated into the changed setting of the early Principate, the same awareness of the value of control over access to state knowledge is exhibited by the emperor. Particularly relevant was the Augustan ban on the publication of senatorial proceedings, since the relationship between senate and …
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Clodia, Fulvia, Livia, Messalina : what can we really learn about the elite women of Rome?
… emancipation for women. The foundation of the Principate sees Augustan moral legislation attempting to address this, combined with the establishment of an unprecedented female role: that of First Lady. Livia of the sources is virtuous and loyal, but she is also manipulative and a poisoner. …
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