Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity
Edited by Henning Börm Associate editor Wolfgang Havener
Hardback (Published)
(September 2015)
ISBN: 9783515110952
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $110.00
On back order
When analyzing the character of monarchic regimes and their strategies for creating obedience and acceptance, the focus usually lies on the ruler ideology and the self-representation of the individual monarch. However, the contributions to the present volume try to approach the matter from the angle of the – real or merely anticipated – criticism against the background of which monarchic legitimization was expressed: what conditions, what elements, and what strategies were characteristic of a critical discussion of monocracy in antiquity, and to what extent was the relationship between ruler ideology and antimonarchic sentiment marked by mutual dependence? What significance did the eternal background noise possess which as a contre-discourse compelled rulers in Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece and Rome to justify themselves again and again?
Henning Börm is professor of Ancient History at the University of Rostock.
- Edited by Henning Börm
- Associate editor Wolfgang Havener
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Zwischen Princeps und Res Publica
Tacitus, Plinius und die senatorische Selbstdarstellung in der Hohen Kaiserzeit
Imperator Augustus
Die diskursive Konstituierung der militärischen "persona" des ersten römischen "princeps"
The Splendors and Miseries of Ruling Alone
Encounters with Monarchy from Archaic Greece to the Hellenistic Mediterranean
The Office of “Magister Militum” in the 4th Century CE
A Study into the Impact of Political and Military Leadership on the Later Roman Empire
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