Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
David Hood ◽  
Ronald Mellor
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
The Creation

The Gospels as Imperialized Sites of Memory in Late Ancient Christianity

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
Jason T. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Material Things ◽  
A Site ◽  
Ancient Christianity

This article considers the intersection of Christian and imperial memory in the physical Gospel book. Besides describing the function of gospel books in the post-Constantine Roman Empire, it examines the connection between the Roman construction and production of sites of memory that established Roman imperium in the Mediterranean and the development of the Christian Gospel codex as a site of memory within Christianity. It also explores the related issues of imperial and divine power as manifest through material things, the rhetoric of seeing and iconicity, and the invented tradition of Christian orthodoxy. The article shows that the Christian Gospels and Roman sites of memory, despite a vast difference in their intended functions and original uses, both established imperium. It maintains that the creation of the Gospels' imperial iconicity was not based on their function as texts of spiritual enlightenment in late ancient Christianity, but on the fact that the production of Gospels as material cultural objects depended on Roman cultural exemplars and ideological rhetoric.

A Time to Regender: The Transformation of Roman Time

KronoScope ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Barden Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Universal Time ◽  
First Century ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Roman Time ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Imperial State ◽  
Representation Of Time

AbstractAt the end of the first century A.D., at the height of the Roman empire, a new abstract deity of eternal time, Aeternitas, appeared. This first discrete personification of abstract time was initially a female image represented on official coins and monuments, but in A.D. 121, a new male personification of eternal time appeared in imperial, state sponsored art. Both male and female depictions of eternal time were accompanied by a rich array of attributes that connected eternity, immortality, and earthly prosperity. This change in the image of time occurred simultaneously with tremendous changes in Roman culture: the creation of universal time keeping, the creation of elaborate beliefs in the afterlife, and transformations in Romans' expectations of life, lead to the embodiment of an ideal of eternity in the personification Aeternitas, and explain the radical transformations in her/his iconography. It is through a study of the representation of time that we identify a profound reenvisioning of the nature of time in Western thought, when human temporal and metaphysical experiences of time were expanded, laying the foundation for the successful spread of the Christian conceptions of eternal blissful time after the apocalypse.

Cassiodorus and the Rise of the Amals: Genealogy and the Goths under Hun Domination

1989 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Heather
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
World Order ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
River Danube ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation

From the mid-third century, Gothic tribes inhabited lands north of the river Danube; they were destined, however, to play a major role in the destruction of the Roman Empire and the creation of the medieval world order. In the last quarter of the fourth century, in the face of Hun attacks, some Goths (those commonly known as Visigoths) fled into the Roman Empire, winning a famous victory at Hadrianople in 378 and sacking Rome in 410. They later moved further west to found a kingdom in southern Gaul and Spain. Of equal historical importance are those Goths (usually known as Ostrogoths) who remained north of the Danube under Hun domination from c. 375 to c. 450. They too then entered the Empire, and, under Theoderic the Great, established a kingdom in Italy which is known to us through Boethius, Cassiodorus, and Ennodius. Much less well known, however, is the formative stage of their history when the Ostrogoths endured Hun domination, and it is on our sources for this period that this study will concentrate.

The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan T. Elkins
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Inner Circle ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Light

Nerva ruled from September AD 96 to January 98. His short reign provided little public building and monumental art, and study of Nerva has been the province of the historian, who often relies on textual sources written after his death. History has judged Nerva as an emperor who lacked the respect of the Praetorians and armed forces, and who was vulnerable to coercion. The most complete record of state-sanctioned art from Nerva’s reign is his imperial coinage, frequently studied with historical hindsight and thus characterized as “hopeful,” “apologetic,” or otherwise relating the anxiety of the period. But art operated independently of later and biased historical texts, always presenting the living emperor in a positive light. This book reexamines Nerva’s imperial coinage in positivistic terms and relates imagery to contemporary poetry and panegyric, which praised the emperor. While the audiences at which images were directed included the emperor, attention to hoards and finds also indicates what visual messages were most important in Nerva’s reign and at what other groups in the Roman Empire they were directed. The relationship between the imagery and the rhetoric used by Frontinus, Martial, Tacitus, and Pliny to characterize Nerva and his reign allows reinvestigation of debate about the agency behind the creation of images on imperial coinage. Those in charge of the mint were close to the emperor’s inner circle and thus walked alongside prominent senatorial politicians and equestrians who wrote praise directed at the emperor; those men were in a position to visualize that praise.

Two ‘Virtues’ of Tiberius: A Numismatic Contribution to the History of his Reign

1939 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. V. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Roman Emperor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Mr. M. P. Charlesworth's Raleigh Lecture, ‘The Virtues of a Roman Emperor: Propaganda and the Creation of Belief,’ serves admirably to illuminate a new aspect of the history of the Roman Empire, in which the debt of pure history to numismatics (and notably to the work of Mr. Mattingly in the British Museum Catalogues) will be plain. From the numismatic point of view there is, indeed, one curious omission in Mr. Charlesworth's argument; and attempts to make good the omission have opened up a series of speculations which are here discussed.

Mountstuart Elphinstone and Indian Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Lynn Zastoupil
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Indian Education ◽  
Western India ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Indian People ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One ◽  
Language Literature

Mountstuart Elphinstone was widely lauded by his contemporaries for his progressive views and advanced policies regarding education whilst he held senior colonial positions in western India from 1817 until 1827. The creation of Elphinstone College in his honor exemplifies this. This essay is an exploration of Elphinstone's educational views and policies, paying attention to various influences that explain his distinctive approach to education. These influences included the East India Company's ethos of pragmatic respect for Indian culture, religion and mores; educational policy and debates in contemporary British Bengal; Scotland's parish schools and Adam Smith's use of these to defend state-sponsored education; and German Romantic ideas regarding language, literature and national culture. The chapter concludes with Elphinstone's larger vision of a political education that would lead the Indian people to eventual independence but leave Britain with a "moral empire" that might rival the one that outlasted the Roman Empire.

scholarly journals Slavdom as Christendom’s colony – Slavonic identity according to Zadruga

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28
Author(s):  
Paweł Bielawski
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
National Character ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
The Creation

Abstract The topic of this article is Slavonic identity according to the Zadruga movement. Zadrugians believed that normal cultural and civilizational development of a nation is possible only if there is harmony between the ethnos and spirituality. The believed that Christianity not only alienated Slavs from their native culture and spirituality but also subjugated them to the (German) Holy Roman Empire and Papacy – prime powers of Christendom – through symbolic power. Zadrugians saw the creation of a new, Slavonic-Pagan identity (as opposed to the Christian one) as the only way of breaking what they perceived as “cultural paralysis”. Only through a fundamental change in their national character and mentality, Poles and Slavs will be able to cease being Western civilization’s cultural periphery.

scholarly journals Anubis in the “Isiac Family” in the Hellenistic and Roman World

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 529-548
Author(s):  
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Hellenistic World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Religious Meaning ◽  
Roman Age

Summary The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Anubis as a member of the “Isiac Family” (Isis–Osiris/Sarapis–Horus/Harpokrates–Anubis) during the Hellenistic and Roman age. A new religious-historical analysis allows us to detect more or less profound changes of Anubis' ancient religious meaning due to the transfer from Egypt to Greece and Rome. The spread of this cult from its motherland to the Hellenistic world and subsequently to the Roman Empire caused, as well, the creation of its new religious identity.

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