María Pilar García Ruiz is Reader in Classics at the University of Navarra, Spain. She specializes in late antique literature, focusing in particular on Ammianus’ Res Gestae, the Panegyrici Latini collection and the emperor Julian’s writings.Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas is Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain. His research interests lie primarily in late antique literature and rhetoric, topics about which he has published several papers and books.Contributors are: Diederik Burgersdijk, María Victoria Escribano, María Pilar García Ruiz, Fabio Guidetti, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas , Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz, Daniëlle Slootjes, Ignazio Tantillo, José B. Torres.

• List of FiguresContributorsIntroductionMaría Pilar García Ruiz and Alberto J. Quiroga PuertasPart 1: Constantine1 Emperors and Tyrants in the Fourth Century. Outlining a New Portrait of the Ruler and of His Role through Images and WordsIgnazio Tantillo2 Constantine’s Arch: A Reassessment in the Light of Textual and Material EvidenceDiederik Burgersdijk3 Purple and the Depiction of Constantine in Eusebius and Other Contemporaneous Panegyrical WorksJosé B. TorresPart 2: Julian4 The Caesars: A Myth on Julian’s EmperorshipMaría Pilar García Ruiz5 Cosmic Warnings and Imperial Responses: Ammianus’ Astronomical ExcursusesÁlvaro Sánchez-OstizPart 3: From the Valentinians to Theodosius6 Between Expressionism and Classicism: Stylistic Choices as Means of Legitimisation in Late Fourth-Century Imperial PortraitsFabio Guidetti7 The Letter from Magnus Maximus to Valentinian II (CA 39): Two Imperial Images in ConflictMaría Victoria Escribano8 Toying with Theodosius: The Manipulation of the Imperial Image in the Sources of the Riot of the StatuesAlberto J. Quiroga Puertas9 Managing the Empire while Securing the Throne: Theodosius I and the Administrative Structures of His EmpireDaniëlle SlootjesIndex

‘Alle neun Beiträge sind auf jeweils eigene Weise in Form voneinander unabhängiger Studien Fragen der kaiserlichen Repräsentation im vierten Jahrhundert n. Chr. gewidmet und versuchen so, „to disantagle [statt richtig: disentangle] the complex web of propagandistic formats that converge in the figure of the emperor in order to show how these formats were meant to create an ideological wardrobe at the service of each emperor“ (S. 8). Somit sind sie willkommene Bereicherungen zu einem wichtigen Forschungsfeld.‘ Ulrich Lambrecht, in Plekos vol.24.S: 13-23 (2022)