The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power

The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power

Author: Lukas de Blois

Publisher: Impact of Empire

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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From the days of the emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14) the emperor and his court had a quintessential position within the Roman Empire. It is therefore clear that when the Impact of the Roman Empire is analysed, the impact of the emperor and those surrounding him is a central issue. The study of the representation and perception of Roman imperial power is a multifaceted area of research, which greatly helps our understanding of Roman society. In its successive parts this volume focuses on 1. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power through particular media: literary texts, inscriptions, coins, monuments, ornaments, and insignia, but also nicknames and death-bed scenes. 2. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power in the city of Rome and the various provinces. 3. The representation of power by individual emperors.


The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power

The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power

Author: Paul Erdkamp

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 9004401636

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From the days of the emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14) the emperor and his court had a quintessential position within the Roman Empire. It is therefore clear that when the Impact of the Roman Empire is analysed, the impact of the emperor and those surrounding him is a central issue. The study of the representation and perception of Roman imperial power is a multifaceted area of research, which greatly helps our understanding of Roman society. In its successive parts this volume focuses on 1. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power through particular media: literary texts, inscriptions, coins, monuments, ornaments, and insignia, but also nicknames and death-bed scenes. 2. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power in the city of Rome and the various provinces. 3. The representation of power by individual emperors.


Imperial Ideals in the Roman West

Imperial Ideals in the Roman West

Author: Carlos F. Noreña

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-23

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1107005086

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This book shows how the circulation of ideals associated with the Roman emperor generated ideological unification among aristocracies and reinforced Roman power.


Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome

Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome

Author: Caroline Vout

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0521867398

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This book explores how Roman imperial power was constructed and contested through the representation of sexual relations.


From Republic to Empire

From Republic to Empire

Author: John Pollini

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 0806188162

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Political image-making—especially from the Age of Augustus, when the Roman Republic evolved into a system capable of governing a vast, culturally diverse empire—is the focus of this masterful study of Roman culture. Distinguished art historian and classical archaeologist John Pollini explores how various artistic and ideological symbols of religion and power, based on Roman Republican values and traditions, were taken over or refashioned to convey new ideological content in the constantly changing political world of imperial Rome. Religion, civic life, and politics went hand in hand and formed the very fabric of ancient Roman society. Visual rhetoric was a most effective way to communicate and commemorate the ideals, virtues, and political programs of the leaders of the Roman State in an empire where few people could read and many different languages were spoken. Public memorialization could keep Roman leaders and their achievements before the eyes of the populace, in Rome and in cities under Roman sway. A leader’s success demonstrated that he had the favor of the gods—a form of legitimation crucial for sustaining the Roman Principate, or government by a “First Citizen.” Pollini examines works and traditions ranging from coins to statues and reliefs. He considers the realistic tradition of sculptural portraiture and the ways Roman leaders from the late Republic through the Imperial period were represented in relation to the divine. In comparing visual and verbal expression, he likens sculptural imagery to the structure, syntax, and diction of the Latin language and to ancient rhetorical figures of speech. Throughout the book, Pollini’s vast knowledge of ancient history, religion, literature, and politics extends his analysis far beyond visual culture to every aspect of ancient Roman civilization, including the empire’s ultimate conversion to Christianity. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of the relationship between artistic developments and political change in ancient Rome.


Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD

Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD

Author: Lukas de Blois

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1351135570

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Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD focuses on the wide range of available sources of Roman imperial power in the period AD 193-284, ranging from literary and economic texts, to coins and other artefacts. This volume examines the impact of war on the foundations of the economic, political, military, and ideological power of third-century Roman emperors, and the lasting effects of this. This detailed study offers insight into this complex and transformative period in Roman history and will be a valuable resource to any student of Roman imperial power.


Frontiers in the Roman World

Frontiers in the Roman World

Author: Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 900420119X

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This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed and influenced (perceptions of) frontiers.


Under Divine Auspices

Under Divine Auspices

Author: Clare Rowan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107020123

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Exploration of the role played by deities in the negotiation of imperial power under the Severan dynasty (AD 193-235).


The Moving City

The Moving City

Author: Ida Ostenberg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1472530713

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The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses of context and space, the volume reveals both how movement adds to our understanding of ancient society, and how the movement of people and goods shaped urban development. Covering a wide range of people, places, sources, and times, the volume includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and late antique movement, triumphal processions of conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals and the everyday movements of individual strolls or household errands. By way of its longue durée, dense location and the variety of available sources, the city of ancient Rome offers a unique possibility to study movements as expressions of power, ritual, writing, communication, mentalities, trade, and – also as a result of a massed populace – violent outbreaks and attempts to keep order. The emerging picture is of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined.