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Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology book cover

1st Edition

Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology

By John Alexander Lobur Copyright 2008
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The 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. Lobur explores how these notions become explicated and reconfigured by the upper and mostly non-political classes of Italy... Read more

Note on Translation

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Consensus and Voice in the Formation of the Principate

Chapter I. Roman Consensus and the Founding of the Principate

Chapter II. Order from Chaos: The Narrative of Discord as the Early Imperial Political-Cultural Template

Chapter III. Proscription, the Autonomous Creation of Imperial Ideology, and Auctoritas

Chapter IV. Velleius Paterculus and the Unified Political Culture of the Early Principate

Chapter V. Declamation, Ideology and Consensus

Chapter VI: "Presenting" the Past: Valerius Maximus and Imperial Consensus

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Dr. John Alexander Lobur is an assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi. His interests include Early Imperial History, Literature and Rhetoric, Roman Political and Social Ideology and Roman Historiography.

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