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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400824090
035 _a(DE-B1597)459788
035 _a(OCoLC)52243663
035 _a(OCoLC)979741813
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRoller, Matthew B.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aConstructing Autocracy :
_bAristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome /
_cMatthew B. Roller.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2001]
264 4 _c©2001
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tABBREVIATIONS --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tPART ONE. ETHICS AND IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY --
_tChapter One. THE ETHICS OF CIVIL WAR: COMPETING COMMUNITIES IN LUCAN --
_tChapter Two. ETHICS FOR THE PRINCIPATE: SENECA, STOICISM, AND TRADITIONAL ROMAN MORALITY --
_tPART TWO. FIGURING THE EMPEROR --
_tChapter Three. THE EMPEROR'S AUTHORITY: DINING, EXCHANGE, AND SOCIAL HIERARCHY --
_tChapter Four. MODELING THE EMPEROR: THE MASTER-SLAVE RELATIONSHIP AND ITS ALTERNATIVES --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tGENERAL INDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aRome'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 "dialogical" 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 "thinking out" 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 "politics" of literature.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 0 _aAristocracy (Political science)
_zRome.
650 0 _aClass consciousness
_zRome.
650 0 _aEmperors
_zRome.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824090
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