Carlos F. Noreña

Imperial Ideals in the Roman West

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the circulation of ideals associated with the Roman emperor generated ideological unification among aristocracies and reinforced Roman power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781316628966
• ISBN-10: 1316628965
• Artikelnr.: 45190398

Autorenporträt

Carlos F. Noreña is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coeditor, with Björn C. Ewald, of The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual (Cambridge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Representation: Introduction to Part I: representation
2. Values and virtues: the ethical profile of the emperor
3. The benefits of empire and monarchy
Part II. Circulation: Introduction to Part II: circulation
4. The diffusion of imperial ideals in time and space
5. Central communication and local response
Part III. Power: 6. Ideological unification and social power in the Roman west
Appendices 1-15.