The Ludi Saeculares Of Septimius Severus

Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351970389

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The Ludi Saeculares of Septimius Severus by Jussi Rantala Pdf

This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology. To garner popular support and to legitimise his power, Severus conducted an intensive propaganda campaign, but how did he use the ludi to strengthen his power, and what were the messages he conveyed through them? The central theme is ritual, and the idea of ritual as a process that builds collective identity. The games symbolised the new Severan political and social vision and they embodied the idea of Roman identity and the image of Roman society which the emperor wished to promote. The programme of the games was recorded in a stone inscription and this text is analysed in detail, translated into English and contextualised in the socio-political aims of Septimius Severus.

Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351970396

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The Ludi Saeculares of Septimius Severus by Jussi Rantala Pdf

This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology. To garner popular support and to legitimise his power, Severus conducted an intensive propaganda campaign, but how did he use the ludi to strengthen his power, and what were the messages he conveyed through them? The central theme is ritual, and the idea of ritual as a process that builds collective identity. The games symbolised the new Severan political and social vision and they embodied the idea of Roman identity and the image of Roman society which the emperor wished to promote. The programme of the games was recorded in a stone inscription and this text is analysed in detail, translated into English and contextualised in the socio-political aims of Septimius Severus.

Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9514490282

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Maintaining Loyalty, Declaring Continuity, Legitimizing Power by Jussi Rantala Pdf

Author : Shannan Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89076291129

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The Ludi Saeculares by Shannan Stewart Pdf

Author : Richard Faure,Simon-Pierre Valli,Arnaud Zucker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110736076

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Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity by Richard Faure,Simon-Pierre Valli,Arnaud Zucker Pdf

This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different points of view and sources. Reflections on time were both central and various throughout the history of ancient philosophy. Time was a topic, but also material for poets, historians and doctors. Importantly, the contributions also explore implicit conceptions and how language influences our thought categories.

Author : Molly Lindner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472118953

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Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, Priestesses of Ancient Rome by Molly Lindner Pdf

Molly M. Lindner's new book examines the sculptural presentation of the Vestal Virgins, who, for more than eleven hundred years, dedicated their lives to the goddess Vesta, protector of the Roman state. Though supervised by a male priest, the Pontifex Maximus, they had privileges beyond those of most women; like Roman men, they dispensed favors and influence on behalf of their clients and relatives. The recovery of the Vestals' house, and statues of the priestesses, was an exciting moment in Roman archaeology. In 1883 Rodolfo Lanciani, Director of Antiquities for Rome, discovered the first Vestal statues. Newspapers were filled with details about the huge numbers of sculptures, inscriptions, jewelry, coins, and terracotta figures. Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, Priestesses of Ancient Rome investigates what images of long-dead women tell us about what was important to them. It addresses why portraits were made, and why their portraits—first set up in the late 1st or 2nd century CE—began to appear so much later than portraits of other nonimperial women and other Roman priestesses. The author sheds light on identifying a Vestal portrait among those of other priestesses, and considers why Vestal portraits do not copy each other's headdresses and hairstyles. Fourteen extensively illustrated chapters and a catalog of all known portraits help consider historical clues embedded in the hairstyles and facial features of the Vestals and other women of their day. What has appeared to be a mute collection of marble portraits has been given a voice through this book.

Author : John S. McHugh
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473845824

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Emperor Alexander Severus by John S. McHugh Pdf

Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander at the Emperor's feet) and foreign invasion. Yet the ancient sources generally present his reign as a golden age of just government, prosperity and religious tolerance Not yet fourteen when he became emperor, Alexander was dominated by his mother, Julia Mammaea and advisors like the historian, Cassius Dio. In the military field, he successfully checked the aggressive Sassanid Persians but some sources see his Persian campaign as a costly failure marked by mutiny and reverses that weakened the army. When Germanic and Sarmatian tribes crossed the Rhine and Danube frontiers in 234, Alexander took the field against them but when he attempted to negotiate to buy time, his soldiers perceived him as weak, assassinated him and replaced him with the soldier Maximinus Thrax. John McHugh reassesses this fascinating emperor in detail.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004436251

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Time in the Eternal City by Anonim Pdf

Time in the Eternal City is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome.

Author : Erika Manders
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004189706

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Coining Images of Power by Erika Manders Pdf

Based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 8227 coin types, this book describes and interprets the diachronic development of the representation of Roman emperors on imperial coins issued between 193 and 284.

Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 9462988056

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Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World by Jussi Rantala Pdf

This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history -- gender, memory and identity -- and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role. The aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World is to cast light on the constructing and the maintaining of both public and private identities in the Roman Empire through memory, and to highlight, in particular, the role of gender in that process. While approaching this subject, the contributors to this volume scrutinise both the literature and material sources, pointing out how widespread the close relationship between gender, memory and identity was. A major aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World as a whole is to point out the significance of the interaction between these three concepts in both the upper and lower levels of Roman society, and how it remained an important question through the period from Augustus right into Late Antiquity.

Author : Helène Whittaker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443833257

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In Memoriam by Helène Whittaker Pdf

References to the past play a significant role on many levels in both modern and ancient societies. What societies choose to remember and how they do it can be seen in relation to their social, religious, and moral world view. Ancient societies invested heavily in remembrance, and the memory of remarkable individuals and significant events was deliberately perpetuated through both literature and material culture. The papers in this volume discuss the topic of the deliberate creation of memory in relation to both literary and material evidence from the Graeco-Roman world. They range in time from the Greek Archaic period to Late Antiquity. A major aim of the collection as a whole is an attempt to cast light on the relationship between an individual’s gender and social status and the existence of opportunities for ensuring that he or she would be remembered after death.

Author : Wouter Vanacker,Arjan Zuiderhoek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317118473

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Imperial Identities in the Roman World by Wouter Vanacker,Arjan Zuiderhoek Pdf

In recent years, the debate on Romanisation has often been framed in terms of identity. Discussions have concentrated on how the expansion of empire impacted on the constructed or self-ascribed sense of belonging of its inhabitants, and just how the interaction between local identities and Roman ideology and practices may have led to a multicultural empire has been a central research focus. This volume challenges this perspective by drawing attention to the processes of identity formation that contributed to an imperial identity, a sense of belonging to the political, social, cultural and religious structures of the Empire. Instead of concentrating on politics and imperial administration, the volume studies the manifold ways in which people were ritually engaged in producing, consuming, organising, believing and worshipping that fitted the (changing) realities of empire. It focuses on how individuals and groups tried to do things 'the right way', i.e., the Greco-Roman imperial way. Given the deep cultural entrenchment of ritualistic practices, an imperial identity firmly grounded in such practices might well have been instrumental, not just to the long-lasting stability of the Roman imperial order, but also to the persistence of its ideals well into (Christian) Late Antiquity and post-Roman times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004510517

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The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio by Anonim Pdf

This volume addresses the intellectual and political contexts that produced Cassius Dio's (c. 160–c. 230 CE) massive and indispensable synthesis of Roman history. Contributors examine the literary influences, cultural identity and political ideologies of this much read but enigmatic author.

Author : Jonathan J. Price,Margalit Finkelberg,Yuval Shahar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009256223

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations by Jonathan J. Price,Margalit Finkelberg,Yuval Shahar Pdf

A panoramic and colourful view of the many ethnic identities, languages and cultures composing the Roman Empire.

Author : Winfred P. Lehmann,Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277886

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Language Typology 1988 by Winfred P. Lehmann,Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt Pdf

This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board. The volume deals with an area of linguistics in which scholars of the USSR have made notable contributions and makes available to the West at least one segment of Soviet historical linguistics. This publication hopes to extend our knowledge of peoples of the present and the past through improved understanding of their languages and the texts they have produced.