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24162 results in Ancient history

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  • Chapter 6 - Living in an Age of Gold, or the Emperor As a Temporal Figure

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 179-232

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the emperor as a temporal figure who inhabits time as a person and a symbol that gives time its shape. Different forms of temporal thinking are included here, such as describing the age of an emperor as golden and its concomitant images, using the emperor as a way to mark time, and the Roman concern with oblivion and being remembered in the future. This chapter also wrestles with the emperor as a focus of cult and devotion for the present safety and prosperity of the empire, how biography and history encounter the emperor as a figure for historical study, and how emperors can be resurrected to haunt current rulers and question their legitimacy.

  • Chapter 3 - The Generosity of the Roman Emperor

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 99-130

  • Summary

    This chapter focusses on the importance of conspicuous generosity to the emperors and their heirs. Euergetism describes a performed relationship between rulers and ruled, where exchanges of goods, money, and clout are transacted. The expectation of such generosity is important for the stability and legitimacy of an emperor’s reign, which makes the question of succession a secondary focus of this chapter: how did the Roman emperor secure the future legitimacy of his position?

  • Chapter 1 - A History of the Roman Emperor

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 6-61

  • Summary

    This chapter has two purposes. First, it outlines the problems of and methods for finding the popular voice in our evidence from Roman antiquity. Utilising James C. Scott’s paradigm of hidden transcripts, this chapter argues that wider perceptions of the Roman emperor can be excavated from a wide-range of different material. Second, the chapter explores the history and historiography of the Roman emperor and how the power of the Roman emperor has been described and understood in antiquity and beyond.

  • Chapter 4 - Wonder Tales

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 131-159

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines the emperor as a figure of wonder and monstrosity. The power of the Roman emperor and empire sought the curation of weird and wonderful things from across the empire and beyond. Such wonders and monstrosities were brought to Rome for public display, which coloured how the emperor himself was perceived in literature that ranges from biography and historiography to paradoxography. The emperor as a figure of enormous power and as a monster comes into full focus.

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