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Civilization, Modern --- Emperors in literature. --- Roman influences. --- Augustus, --- Influence. --- In literature
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How was the Roman emperor viewed by his subjects? How strongly did their perception of his role shape his behaviour? Adopting a fresh approach, Panayiotis Christoforou focuses on the emperor from the perspective of his subjects across the Roman Empire. Stress lies on the imagination: the emperor was who he seemed, or was imagined, to be. Through various vignettes employing a wide range of sources, he analyses the emperor through the concerns and expectations of his subjects, which range from intercessory justice to fears of the monstrosities associated with absolute power. The book posits that mythical and fictional stories about the Roman emperor form the substance of what people thought about him, which underlines their importance for the historical and political discourse that formed around him as a figure. The emperor emerges as an ambiguous figure. Loved and hated, feared and revered, he was an object of contradiction and curiosity.
Emperors --- Emperors in literature. --- Emperor worship --- Emperors Rome --- Historiography. --- Public opinion. --- Folklore. --- Rome --- Politics and government --- History
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Studien zum Nerobild in der lateinischen Dichtung der Antike Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
Latin literature --- Politics and literature --- Literature and history --- Emperors in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Nero, --- In literature.
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"This anthology provides valuable new insights into discussions about the virtues, qualities, and position of the emperor in the Roman world (especially with regard to the perception of imperial dominion in the eastern provinces) by systematically focusing on documentary sources, i.e. inscriptions in particular. In addition, the assembled texts contribute to the study of Roman political thought, shaped by earlier traditions primarily during the Principate and the beginning of the Later Roman Empire. Cet ouvrage collectif apporte de nouveaux éclairages précieux aux discussions sur les vertus, les qualités, la position de l'empereur dans le monde romain (notamment sur la perception de la domination impériale dans les provinces orientales), en se concentrant systématiquement sur les sources, c'est-à-dire les inscriptions en particulier. Les textes réunis contribuent également à l'étude de la pensée politique romaine, façonnée par des traditions antérieures, surtout pendant le Principat et le début de l'Antiquité Tardive. Contributors are: Miriam Bastian, Filippo Battistoni, Stéphane Benoist, Agnès Bérenger, Caroline Blonce, Domitilla Campanile, Anne Daguet-Gagey, Ségolène Demougin, Henri Fernoux, Gabrielle Frija, Anne Gangloff, Matthias Haake, Anna Heller, Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe, Frédéric Hurlet, Sabine Lefebvre, Giorgos Mitropoulos"--
Emperors --- Emperors --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Emperors in literature. --- Sources. --- Historiography. --- Rome --- Rome --- History --- Politics and government
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Yourcenar, Marguerite --- Biographie (genre littéraire) --- Emperors in literature. --- Biography as a literary form. --- Yourcenar, Marguerite, --- Yourcenar, Marguerite. --- Hadrian, --- In literature. --- Rome --- Hadrian
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"Publié en 1951, Mémoires d'Hadrien marque l'émergence d'une figure majeure de la scène culturelle contemporaine, Marguerite Yourcenar. Tout à la fois roman, lettre, récit de soi, essai, le dispositif conçu par Marguerite Yourcenar permet d'expérimenter un rapport singulier à l'Histoire. Sur fond d'Antiquité romaine, de guerre et de paix, mais aussi de passion amoureuse, les données érudites sont travaillées par une méditation dont le temps, le devenir des sociétés et le principe de civilisation constituent les enjeux principaux. Il s'en dégage une dimension humaniste qui, loin d'exalter l'espèce humaine au détriment du monde, ouvre à la pleine conscience de notre altérité. Les livres des poètes et des philosophes en sont les médiateurs, tout comme la coprésence au monde de l'humain et de l'animal. La diversité substantielle du roman ainsi étudiée est située à l'intérieur de l'oeuvre, avec laquelle elle entre en résonance : Carnets de notes des "Mémoires d'Hadrien", mémoires et correspondance de l'auteure. L'analyse d'une page retranchée de la version finale du roman, mais archivée, permet par ailleurs d'entrer dans l'atelier noir de l'auteure, au plus près du processus de la création romanesque."--P. [4] of cover.
Emperors in literature. --- Biography as a literary form. --- Literature. --- Yourcenar, Marguerite. --- Hadrian, --- Yourcenar, Marguerite, --- In literature. --- Mémoires d'Hadrien (Yourcenar, Marguerite). --- Rome --- Rome (Empire).
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"This anthology provides valuable new insights into discussions about the virtues, qualities, and position of the emperor in the Roman world (especially with regard to the perception of imperial dominion in the eastern provinces) by systematically focusing on documentary sources, i.e. inscriptions in particular. In addition, the assembled texts contribute to the study of Roman political thought, shaped by earlier traditions primarily during the Principate and the beginning of the Later Roman Empire. Cet ouvrage collectif apporte de nouveaux éclairages précieux aux discussions sur les vertus, les qualités, la position de l'empereur dans le monde romain (notamment sur la perception de la domination impériale dans les provinces orientales), en se concentrant systématiquement sur les sources, c'est-à-dire les inscriptions en particulier. Les textes réunis contribuent également à l'étude de la pensée politique romaine, façonnée par des traditions antérieures, surtout pendant le Principat et le début de l'Antiquité Tardive. Contributors are: Miriam Bastian, Filippo Battistoni, Stéphane Benoist, Agnès Bérenger, Caroline Blonce, Domitilla Campanile, Anne Daguet-Gagey, Ségolène Demougin, Henri Fernoux, Gabrielle Frija, Anne Gangloff, Matthias Haake, Anna Heller, Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe, Frédéric Hurlet, Sabine Lefebvre, Giorgos Mitropoulos"
Emperors --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Emperors in literature. --- Sources. --- Historiography. --- Rome --- History --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Empereurs --- Historiographie. --- Dans la littérature.
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When Nero took the stage, the audience played along--or else. The drama thus enacted, whether in the theater proper or in the political arena, unfolds in all its rich complexity in Actors in the Audience. This is a book about language, theatricality, and empire--about how the Roman emperor dramatized his rule and how his subordinates in turn staged their response. The focus is on Nero: his performances onstage spurred his contemporaries to reflect on the nature of power and representation, and to make the stage a paradigm for larger questions about the theatricality of power. Through these portrayals by ancient writers, Shadi Bartsch explores what happens to language and representation when all discourse is distorted by the pull of an autocratic authority. Some Roman senators, forced to become actors and dissimulators under the scrutinizing eye of the ruler, portrayed themselves and their class as the victims of regimes that are, for us, redolent of Stalinism. Other writers claimed that doublespeak--saying one thing and meaning two--was the way one could, and did, undo the constraining effects of imperial oppression. Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal all figure in Bartsch's shrewd analysis of historical and literary responses to the brute facts of empire; even the Panegyricus of Pliny the Younger now appears as a reaction against the widespread awareness of dissimulation. Informed by theories of dramaturgy, sociology, new historicism, and cultural criticism, this close reading of literary and historical texts gives us a new perspective on the politics of the Roman empire--and on the languages and representation of power.
Latin literature --- Theater --- Emperors in literature --- Literature and history --- Role playing in literature --- Dictators in literature --- Theater audiences --- Communication --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- History and criticism --- History
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Death in literature. --- Emperors in literature. --- Emperors --- Historiography --- Latin prose literature --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Death in literature --- Emperors in literature --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Kings and rulers --- Monarchy --- Biography&delete& --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Historiography. --- Czars (Emperors) --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Biography&delete&&delete&
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