Making Sense of Monarchy in the Roman World, 50 BC - AD 100

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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From the last decades of the Roman Republic to the establishment of the Trajanic monarchy, the period 50 BC to AD 100 was a period of constitutional and cultural change in the Roman world. Our main literary accounts of this period of transformation - the narratives of Appian, Tacitus, Cassius Dio and Suetonius, subtle and insightful they may be, were all written with the benefit of hindsight. Moreover, they were products of a literary and political culture which was distinct from that which they were describing. This volume attempts to locate an earlier phase. Taking authors ranging in time from Cornelius Nepos to the author of Luke-Acts, the chapters in this volume ask what their texts reveal about the ways in which writers thought about monarchy or monarchical systems, how they were influenced by earlier traditions, and how they responded to the monarchical reality of their own times.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-01-31
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor275
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009855723

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Christopher Mallan is an Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History and the Cassamarca Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia. Eleanor Cowan is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She is the editor of Velleius Paterculus: Making History (2011) and co-editor of a special edition of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (2023/4) on Domestic Violence and Vulnerability in the Roman World and of The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome (2025).

Part I. Monarchy: 1. Making sense of monarchy Christopher Mallan with Eleanor Cowan; 2. Who's driving this thing? The idea of the weak king in the early Principate Robert Cowan; 3. Monarchical myth, or mirror for Rome? Pliny the Elder, the Principate and King of Sri Lanka Rhiannon Ash; 4. Wonder women: queens and female rulership in Diodorus' Bibliotheke Nakeesha Radice; Part II. Making Sense from Discord: 5. Dionysius and Rome's failed Constitution Liv Yarrow; 6. A king by other name: electing monarchs in Cornelius Nepos' Lives of Miltiades and Timoleon Elisabeth Slingsby; 7. Manilius (and his contemporaries) makes sense of monarchy Eleanor Cowan; 8. Murder, treason and plot: conspiracy narratives in Valerius Maximus and Curtius Rufus Christopher Mallan; Part III. Making Sense of Benevolence and Beneficence: 9. Nicolaus of Damascus and the wealth of kings Kimberly Czajkowski; 10. Kingship and imperial benefaction in Luke-Acts Shushma Malik; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index.