The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power

✍ Scribed by Lukas de Blois, Paul Erdkamp, Olivier Hekster, Gerda de Kleijn, Stephan Mols (eds.)

• Publisher: J. C. Gieben
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English, German, Italian, French
• Leaves: 584
• Series: Impact of Empire (Roman Empire), 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Proceedings of the Third Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476), Netherlands Institute in Rome, March 20-23, 2002.

From the days of the emperor Augustus (27 B.C. - A.D. 14) the emperor and his court had a quintessential position within the Roman Empire. It is therefore clear that when the Impact of the Roman Empire is analysed, the impact of the emperor and those surrounding him is a central issue. The study of the representation and perception of Roman imperial power is a multifaceted area of research, which greatly helps our understanding of Roman society. In its successive parts this volume focuses on 1. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power through particular media: literary texts, inscriptions, coins, monuments, ornaments, and insignia, but also nicknames and death-bed scenes. 2. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power in the city of Rome and the various provinces. 3. The representation of power by individual emperors.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction viii
List of Abbreviations xii
I. The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power: Particular Media
I.1. Inscriptions, Monuments, Coins, Ornaments, Nicknames, and Death-bed Scenes
Géza Alföldy / Die Repräsentation der kaiserlichen Macht in den Inschriften Roms und des Imperium Romanum 3
Olivier Hekster / Coins and Messages. Audience Targeting on Coins of Different Denominations? 20
Fernando López-Sánchez / Left and Right in Roman Coins of the fourth and fifth Centuries A.D. 36
Henner von Hesberg / Römisches Ornament als Sprache. Die sanfte Gegenwart der Macht 48
Christer Bruun / Roman Emperors in Popular Jargon: Searching for Contemporary Nicknames (I) 69
Anton van Hooff / The Imperial Art of Dying 99
Rudolf Haensch / Römische Amtsinhaber als Vorbilder für die Bischöfe des vierten Jahrhunderts 117
I.2. Imperium, Empire, and Emperor in Literary, Juridical, and Administrative Texts
John Richardson / Imperium Romanum between Republic and Empire 137
Lukas de Blois / The Perception of Roman Imperial Authority in Herodian's Work 148
Willem Zwalve / Valerius Patruinus' case. Contracting in the name of the emperor 157
Concepción Neira Faleiro / La plenitudo potestatis e la veneratio imperatoris come principio dogmatico della politica della tarda antichità; un esempio chiaro: la Notitia Dignitatum 170
II. The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power: Rome and the Provinces
II.1. The City of Rome
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill / The Streets of Rome as a Representation of Imperial Power 189
Gerda de Kleijn / The Emperor and Public Works in the City of Rome 207
Silvio Panciera / Umano, sovrumano o divino? Le divinità augustee e l'imperatore a Roma 215
II.2. The Provinces
Paula Botteri / Ancyra, Antiochia e Apollonia. La rappresentazione delle 'Res Gestae Divi Augusti' 240
Angelos Chaniotis / The Perception of Imperial Power in Aphrodisias: The Epigraphic Evidence 250
Bernard Stolte / Jurisdiction and Representation of Power, or, the Emperor on Circuit 261
Janneke de Jong / Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power in Greek Papyrus Texts from A.D. 238 269
Werner Eck / Nähe und Ferne kaiserlicher Macht: das Beispiel Köln 282
Andreas Krieckhaus / Im Schatten des Kaisers: Überlegungen zu: L. Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus und seiner Beziehung zu Hadrian 302
Danielle Slootjes / Between Criticism and Praise: Provincials' Image of the Governor in the Later Roman Empire 318
III. The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power: Individual Emperors
John Rich / Augustus, War and Peace 329
Yves Perrin / Aux marches du palais: les accès au Palatium de 54 à 70 358
Eric Moormann / Some Observations on Nero and the City of Rome 376
Jon Coulston / Overcoming the Barbarian. Depictions of Rome's Enemies in Trajanic Monumental Art 389
Anthony Birley / Hadrian's Travels 425
Caroline Vout / A Revision of Hadrian's Portraiture 442
Stephan Mols / The Cult of Roma Aeterna in Hadrian's Politics 458
Karen Haegemans / Representation and Perception of Imperial Power in AD 238. The Numismatic Evidence 466
Henk Singor / The Labarum, Shield Blazons, and Constantine's caeleste signum 481
Index Nominum 501
List of illustrations