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.


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.


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.


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.


Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism

Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism

Author: Drew W. Billings

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1316991555

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Acts of the Apostles is normally understood as a historical report of events of the early church and serves as the organizing centerpiece of the New Testament canon. In this book, Drew W. Billings demonstrates that Acts was written in conformity with broader representational trends and standards found on imperial monuments and in the epigraphic record of the early second century. Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to a text of critical importance, he compares the methods of representation in Acts with visual and verbal representations that were common during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan (98-117 CE). Billings argues that Acts adopts the rhetoric of Roman imperialism as articulated in the images and texts from the period. His study bridges the fields of classics, art history, gender studies, Jewish studies, and New Testament studies in exploring how early Christian texts relate to wider patterns in the cultural production of the Roman Empire.


Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire

Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire

Author: Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9004174818

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This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact of the Roman Empire on religious behaviour, with a special focus on the dynamics of ritual. The volume is divided into three sections: ritualising the empire, performing civic community in the empire and performing religion in the empire.


The Governor and his Subjects in the Later Roman Empire

The Governor and his Subjects in the Later Roman Empire

Author: Daniëlle Slootjes

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9047409345

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This book presents new insights into the dynamics of the relationship between governors and provincial subjects in the Later Roman Empire, with a focus on the provincial perspective. Based on literary, legal, epigraphic and artistic materials the author deals with questions such as how provincials communicated their needs to governors, how they expressed both their favorable and critical opinions of governors’ behavior, and how they rewarded ‘good’ governors. Provincial expectations, a continuous dialogue, interdependence, reciprocity, and ceremonial routine play key roles in this study that not only leads to a better understanding of Late Roman provincial administration, but also of the successful functioning of an empire as large as that of Rome.


Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire

Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire

Author: Lukas de Blois

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 900440161X

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The title of this volume is ‘Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire’. The papers contained in this volume focus on all three of these themes, within the context of the impact of the Roman empire upon the regions it dominated. The papers contained in the first part of the volume concentrate on appointment policies, career structures and the impact of military presence and recuitment, esp. in border provinces, in the period of the Principate (27 B.C. – A.D. 284). In the second part of the volume the reader will find papers on Roman jurists, administrators, and bureaucrats and articles about administrative procedures, the administration of justice, rescripts and the influence of learned juridical treatises in various regions of the Roman empire. The last section of the volume presents contributions on the impact of the Roman imperial administration and appointment policies on communal rights and politics, the composition of local councils, local administrative structures, Romanisation, and social mobility of regional and local notables in various provinces of the Roman Empire.