Leaders and Masses in the Roman World

Leaders and Masses in the Roman World
Author: Malkin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004329447

It is largely thanks to Zvi Yavetz that the Roman plebs has become “Salonfähig”. In numerous important studies Yavetz has focused his — and our — attention on the problem of the relationship between the ruler and the masses of the ruled. Thus, it seemed natural to choose various aspects of this relationship as the topic of a volume in his honour. The articles here contributed by thirteen eminent friends and colleagues deal with historical and theoretical questions of the relationship between “the one” and “the many”, covering a period from the second century B.C., through the times of the Late Republic and the Principate, to Late Antiquity and, finally, to an intriguing view at modern totalitarianism as perceived from an Enlightenment perspective.

Imperial Identities in the Roman World

Imperial Identities in the Roman World
Author: Wouter Vanacker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317118480

This volume, rather than concentrating on politics and imperial administration, studies the manifold ways in which people were ritually engaged in producing, consuming, organising and worshipping that fitted the changing realities of empire, focusing on how individuals and groups tried to do things 'the right way', the Greco-Roman imperial way. Given the deep cultural entrenchment of ritualistic practices, an imperial identity firmly grounded in such practices might well have been instrumental not just to the long-lasting stability of the Roman imperial order but also to the persistency of its ideals well into post-Roman times.

Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome

Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome
Author: J. Bert Lott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2012-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 052186044X

The founding of the Roman Principate was a time of great turmoil. This book brings together a set of important Latin inscriptions, including the recently discovered documents concerning the death of Germanicus and trial of Cn. Piso, in order to illustrate the developing sense of dynasty that underpinned the new monarchy of Augustus. Each inscription is supplied with its original text, a new English translation, and a full introduction and historical commentary that will be useful to students and scholars alike. The book also provides important technical help in understanding the production and interpretation of documents and inscriptions, thereby making it an excellent starting point for introducing students to Roman epigraphy.

The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre

The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre
Author: Alison E. Cooley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108494455

Examines the emergence of dynastic rule at Rome in the early Principate via analysis of the senatorial decree concerning Piso.

Augustus

Augustus
Author: Jonathan Edmondson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748695389

This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.

The Sleeping Sovereign

The Sleeping Sovereign
Author: Richard Tuck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316425509

Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy.

The Divinization of Caesar and Augustus

The Divinization of Caesar and Augustus
Author: Michael Koortbojian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0521192153

This book examines the newly institutionalized divinization of Caesar and Augustus at the advent of the Roman empire.

The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power

The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power
Author: Paul Erdkamp
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004401636

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.

Roman Spain (Routledge Revivals)

Roman Spain (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Leonard A. Curchin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317808282

The rugged, parched landscape and fierce inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula resisted Rome’s best generals for two centuries. Roman Spain tells the story of this conquest, making use of the latest archaeological evidence to explore the social, religious, political and economic implications of the transition from a tribal community accustomed to grisly human sacrifices to a civilised, Latin-speaking provincial society. From the fabled kingdom of Tartesos to the triumph of Christianity, Professor Curchin traces the evolution of Hispano-Roman cults, the integration of Spain into the Roman economy, cultural ‘resistance’ to Romanisation, and surveys the chief cities of the Roman administration as well as conditions in the countryside. Special emphasis is placed on social relationships: soldier and civilian, the emperor and the provincials, patrons and clients, the upper and lower classes, women and the family.

Connected Histories of the Roman Civil Wars (88–30 BCE)

Connected Histories of the Roman Civil Wars (88–30 BCE)
Author: David García Domínguez
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2024-11-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 3111431770

This book offers a distinctive take on the civil wars that unfolded in the Late Roman Republic. It frames their discussion against the backdrop of the Mediterranean contexts in which they were fought, and sets out to bring to the centre of the debate the significance of provincial agency on a traumatic and complex process, which cannot be understood through an exclusive focus on Roman and Italian developments. The study of the late Republican civil wars can be productively read as an exercise of ‘connected history’, in which the fundamental interdependence of the Mediterranean world comes to the fore through a set of case studies that await to be understood through a properly integrative approach. Our project brings together an international and diverse lineup of scholars, who engage with a wide range of literary, documentary, and archaeological material, and make a collective contribution to the reframing of a problem that requires a collaborative and interdisciplinary outlook, and can yield invaluable insights to the understanding of the Roman imperial project.