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  • Coda

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 233-237

  • Summary

    The goal of this book was to construct an alternative approach to the Roman emperor. The conceit was to take a subjective view, which strives to reconstruct how the emperor seemed from the perspective of the inhabitants of the Roman empire. This approach, though, moves away from overt biographical approaches to emperors, which dominate ancient and modern historiography alike. The point here is less to find out what people thought about, say, Tiberius or Pertinax as individual emperors and more about how their examples contributed to the discourse about the emperor more widely: What were the expectations placed on the emperor? What were the duties that he was expected to fulfil? How did people talk about him?

  • Chapter 2 - The Emperor As an Arbiter of Justice

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 62-98

  • Summary

    This chapter focusses on the theme of justice in the expectation of intercession by the Roman emperor in judicial and non-judicial contexts. The chapter takes a wide range of evidence to chart the locations for imperial intercession, which includes images of justice on provincial coinage, asylum seeking by slaves at statues and images of the emperor, and quasi-fictional vignettes of encounters between the emperor and subjects in the context of embassies. Expectations of justice and fears of arbitrary judgement appear together in discourse.

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