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23990 results in Ancient history

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  • Chapter 1 - A History of the Roman Emperor

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 6-61

  • Summary

    This chapter has two purposes. First, it outlines the problems of and methods for finding the popular voice in our evidence from Roman antiquity. Utilising James C. Scott’s paradigm of hidden transcripts, this chapter argues that wider perceptions of the Roman emperor can be excavated from a wide-range of different material. Second, the chapter explores the history and historiography of the Roman emperor and how the power of the Roman emperor has been described and understood in antiquity and beyond.

  • Chapter 4 - Wonder Tales

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 131-159

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines the emperor as a figure of wonder and monstrosity. The power of the Roman emperor and empire sought the curation of weird and wonderful things from across the empire and beyond. Such wonders and monstrosities were brought to Rome for public display, which coloured how the emperor himself was perceived in literature that ranges from biography and historiography to paradoxography. The emperor as a figure of enormous power and as a monster comes into full focus.

  • Chapter 5 - Wisdom and Wit: Making Fun of the Emperor

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 160-178

  • Summary

    This chapter focusses on discourse: how emperors were discussed and understood and how they were seen to interact with society. In particular, the chapter argues that part of the expectations placed on emperors was their ability to take a joke. Analysis focusses on emperors making and taking jokes, which outlines themes of accessibility and affability with wider society. An inability to be seen as jocular or amused translated as negative impressions of character that were fundamental to the historical and biographical receptions of emperors.

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