Representing Rome's Emperors

Caillan Davenport is Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at The Australian National University. He was educated at the University of Queensland and the University of Oxford before holding posts at Queensland, Macquarie University, and ANU. He has received an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. He is the author of A History of the Roman Equestrian Order (2019), which won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize.Shushma Malik is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and Onassis Classics Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She graduated with a PhD in Classics from the University of Bristol in 2013, and since then has held posts at the Universities of Manchester, Queensland, Roehampton, and Cambridge. She has research expertise in imperial Rome and its reception, and is author of The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (2020). From 2020-2023, Shushma was Co-Investigator on a research project co-funded by the AHRC (UK) and DFG (Germany) on the study of ancient corruption.

• 1: Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik: Introduction2: Rhiannon Ash: Tiberius in Space: Proxemics and the Portrayal of the Princeps3: Eleanor Cowan: Julio-Claudian Emperors as Fathers and Sons4: Estelle Strazdins: Herodes Atticus, Hadrian, and the Antonines: Mediating Power and Self-Promotion in Achaea through Public and Private Display5: Lucy Grig: Looking for Representations of Emperors in Late Antique Popular Culture6: Meaghan McEvoy: Educating Theodosius II: Theodosian Child-Emperors and the Manipulation of the Imperial Image7: M. Shane Bjornlie: Jordanes and the End of the Roman Empire8: Filippo Carlà-Uhink: 'Per voler del primo amor ch'i' sento': Justinian and Theodora from the Sixth to Sixteenth Centuries9: Frances Muecke: The Humanists and the Emperors: The Case of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463)10: Shushma Malik: Roman Emperors in Montesquieu's Considerations11: Penelope Goodman: Retrospective Parentage: Augustus as a Father of Europe12: David Scourfield: Fictions of Power: Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March and John Williams' Augustus13: Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik: Epilogue: Towards a Methodology of Representation

The wide-ranging nature of such a volume means that it is impossible to cover every aspect of the representation of emperors and imperial power through time, yet the editors have done excellent work to ensure that there is something for everyone.