Constructing Autocracy (eBook)

Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome

Matthew B. Roller (Autor)

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2001
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2409-0 (ISBN)

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Matthew B. Roller is Associate Professor of Classics at The Johns Hopkins University. His work, which focuses on Rome, reflects wide-ranging interests in literature, history, culture, and ethics.Matthew B. Roller is Associate Professor of Classics at The Johns Hopkins University. His work, which focuses on Rome, reflects wide-ranging interests in literature, history, culture, and ethics.

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Rome's transition from a republican system of government to an imperial regime comprised more than a century of civil upheaval and rapid institutional change. Yet the establishment of a ruling dynasty, centered around a single leader, came as a cultural and political shock to Rome's aristocracy, who had shared power in the previous political order. How did the imperial regime manage to establish itself and how did the Roman elites from the time of Julius Caesar to Nero make sense of it? In this compelling book, Matthew Roller reveals a "e;dialogical"e; process at work, in which writers and philosophers vigorously negotiated and contested the nature and scope of the emperor's authority, despite the consensus that he was the ultimate authority figure in Roman society.Roller seeks evidence for this "e;thinking out"e; of the new order in a wide range of republican and imperial authors, with an emphasis on Lucan and Seneca the Younger. He shows how elites assessed the impact of the imperial system on traditional aristocratic ethics and examines how several longstanding authority relationships in Roman society--those of master to slave, father to son, and gift-creditor to gift-debtor--became competing models for how the emperor did or should relate to his aristocratic subjects. By revealing this ideological activity to be not merely reactive but also constitutive of the new order, Roller contributes to ongoing debates about the character of the Roman imperial system and about the "e;politics"e; of literature.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2001
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: ad hoc • Aerarium militare • Anecdote • assassination • battle of actium • Battle of Pharsalus • B.C. (comic strip) • Caesar and Pompey • Caesarism • Cato the Younger • Classical Antiquity • classics • clementia • Cognomen • Confiscation • consolatio • Consolatio (Cicero) • convivio • Corvinus • Courtier • Criticism • cross-cultural • cruelty • De Beneficiis • declamation • de clementia • de facto • delator • De officiis • De Tranquillitate Animi • Ennius • Ethical Dilemma • Euphemism • Exemplum • flattery • Foe (novel) • freedman • Harpagus • honorific • Horatius Cocles • humiliation • Ideology • Infamia • iniuria • Invective • Invidia • Julio-Claudian dynasty • Juvenal • King's Table • Laus Pisonis • Literary criticism • Literature • livy • Mark Antony • Menas (admiral) • Military Service • Munera (ancient Rome) • narrative • N. (novella) • Nobility • parricide • patronus • Philosopher • Pisonian Conspiracy • plebs • Poetry • Pompey • praetor • Princeton University Press • Principate • Prose • quaestor • rhetoric • Roman Empire • Satire • sejanus • senatus consultum • Sextus (praenomen) • Slavery • social relation • Social Status • Stoicism • Suetonius • Suggestion • Sulla • Tacitus • Tax • The Other Hand • The Various • Trajan • treatise • Tribune of the Plebs • triclinium • Trimalchio • Usage • Valerius Maximus • Vedius Pollio • war • Wealth • Zoilus
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2409-5 / 1400824095
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2409-0 / 9781400824090