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Author:   Sven Betjes ,  Olivier Hekster ,  Erika Manders
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   50
Weight:   0.719kg
ISBN:  

9789004537453

ISBN 10:   9004537457
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   09 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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List of Figures and Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sven Betjes and Erika Manders Part 1: Tradition in the Formation of the Augustan Empire 1 A Divine Right to Rule? The Gods as Legitimators of Power  Amber Gartrell 2 Closing a Highway to Heaven Discontinuities in the Divinisation of Human Beings in Roman Times  Fernando Lozano and Elena Muñiz Grijalvo 3 Women’s Mediation and Peace Diplomacy Augustan Women through the Looking Glass  Elena Torregaray Pagola and Toni Ñaco Del Hoyo 4 Republican Traditions, Imperial Innovations The Representation of the Military Prowess of Augustus’ Family  Florian Groll 5 Augustus and Traditional Structures in Egypt Grand Policies or Ad Hoc Measures?  Livia Capponi 6 Between Tradition and Innovation Place Names and the Geography of Power in Late Republican and Early Imperial Hispania  Sergio España-Chamorro 7 Paving the Route of Hercules The Via Augusta and the Via Iulia Augusta and the Appropriation of Road-Bound Traditions in the Augustan Age  Sven Betjes Part 2: Tradition and Power in the First and Second Century CE 8 Municipal Elections in the Roman West during the Principate The Strength of Tradition  Christer Bruun 9 Plotina and the (Re)Invention of the Tradition of Womanhood  Margherita Carucci 10 Hadrian: Imperator Nomothetes – Ancient Laws for the Empire  Juan Manuel Cortés-Copete 11 Between Tradition and Change The Imitatio Principis in the Imperial East  Giorgios Mitropoulos Part 3: Tradition and Power in the Third and Fourth Century CE 12 Tradition and Innovation in the Rescript Practice of the Emperor Caracalla  Elsemieke Daalder 13 The Emperor Gallienus and the Senators Tradition, Change, and Perception  Lukas de Blois 14 The Role of Tradition for the Negotiation and Legitimization of Imperial Rule in the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires  Nikolas Hächler 15 Stylites on Pillars versus Sanctuaries on Summits The Conquest of Traditional Cult Sites by Christian Ascetics in Northern Syria  Johannes Hahn Part 4: The longue durée of Tradition and Power in Roman Discourse 16 Mos maiorum and res novae How Roman Politics Have Conceived Tradition, Transformation, and Innovation, from the Second Century BCE to the Fourth Century CE  Stéphane Benoist 17 Justinian, the Senate and the Consuls A Rhetorical Memory of the Old Constitution  Francesco Bono Index

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Dr. Sven Betjes is lecturer and researcher of Ancient History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published articles on ideological expressions of Roman emperors, and takes a particular interest in numismatics and ancient roads. Prof.dr. Olivier Hekster is Professor of Ancient History at Radboud University Nijmegen and chair of the Impact of Empire network. He has published widely on the role of ideology in ancient Rome, with a particular focus on Roman emperorship. Dr. Erika Manders is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published a monograph and articles on political culture and religion in the Roman Empire, with particular interest in coins and religious policies of Roman emperors. Contributors are: Stéphane Benoist, Sven Betjes, Lukas De Blois, Francesco Bono, Christer Bruun, Livia Capponi, Margherita Carucci, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elsemieke Daalder, Sergio España-Chamorro, Amber Gartrell, Florian Groll, Nikolas Hächler, Johannes Hahn, Fernando Lozano, Erika Manders, Giorgos Mitropoulos, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, Elena Torregaray Pagola.

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