| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Classics |
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Studies in classics.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on Translation and Bibliographical References; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Consensus and Voice in the Formation of the Principate; 1 Roman Consensus and the Founding of the Principate; 2 Order from Chaos: The Narrative of Discord as the Early Imperial Political-Cultural Template; 3 Proscription, the Autonomous Creation of Imperial Ideology, and Auctoritas; 4 Velleius Paterculus and the Unifi ed Political Culture of the Early Principate; 5 Declamation, Ideology and Consensus |
| Summary |
This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire, and how self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to legitimate and traditional forms of self-presentation |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203894231 |
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0203894235 |
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