Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity

Images and Narratives
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44690-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Impact of Empire

What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor?
Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes.
The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

García Ruiz, María Pilar

J Quiroga Puertas, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Contributors

Introduction

María Pilar García Ruiz and Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas

Part 1: Constantine

1 Emperors and Tyrants in the Fourth Century. Outlining a New Portrait of the Ruler and of His Role through Images and Words

Ignazio Tantillo

2 Constantine’s Arch: A Reassessment in the Light of Textual and Material Evidence

Diederik Burgersdijk

3 Purple and the Depiction of Constantine in Eusebius and Other Contemporaneous Panegyrical Works

José B. Torres

Part 2: Julian

4 The Caesars: A Myth on Julian’s Emperorship

María Pilar García Ruiz

5 Cosmic Warnings and Imperial Responses: Ammianus’ Astronomical Excursuses

Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz

Part 3: From the Valentinians to Theodosius

6 Between Expressionism and Classicism: Stylistic Choices as Means of Legitimisation in Late Fourth-Century Imperial Portraits

Fabio Guidetti

7 The Letter from Magnus Maximus to Valentinian II (CA 39): Two Imperial Images in Conflict

María Victoria Escribano

8 Toying with Theodosius: The Manipulation of the Imperial Image in the Sources of the Riot of the Statues

Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas

9 Managing the Empire while Securing the Throne: Theodosius I and the Administrative Structures of His Empire

Daniëlle Slootjes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.