Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire : : Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop of The International Network Impact of Empire (Nijmegen, 18-20 May 2022) / / edited by Sven Betjes, Olivier Hekster, & Erika Manders, with the assistance of Marieke Ceelaert.

• Superior document: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Hekster, Olivier,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Impact of Empire ; 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages) :; illustrations.

This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction --   Sven Betjes and Erika Manders -- Part 1: Tradition in the Formation of the Augustan Empire -- 1 A Divine Right to Rule? The Gods as Legitimators of Power --   Amber Gartrell -- 2 Closing a Highway to Heaven -- Discontinuities in the Divinisation of Human Beings in Roman Times --   Fernando Lozano and Elena Muñiz Grijalvo -- 3 Women's Mediation and Peace Diplomacy -- Augustan Women through the Looking Glass --   Elena Torregaray Pagola and Toni Ñaco Del Hoyo -- 4 Republican Traditions, Imperial Innovations -- The Representation of the Military Prowess of Augustus' Family --   Florian Groll -- 5 Augustus and Traditional Structures in Egypt -- Grand Policies or Ad Hoc Measures? --   Livia Capponi -- 6 Between Tradition and Innovation -- Place Names and the Geography of Power in Late Republican and Early Imperial Hispania --   Sergio España-Chamorro -- 7 Paving the Route of Hercules -- The Via Augusta and the Via Iulia Augusta and the Appropriation of Road-Bound Traditions in the Augustan Age --   Sven Betjes -- Part 2: Tradition and Power in the First and Second Century CE -- 8 Municipal Elections in the Roman West during the Principate -- The Strength of Tradition --   Christer Bruun -- 9 Plotina and the (Re)Invention of the Tradition of Womanhood --   Margherita Carucci -- 10 Hadrian: Imperator Nomothetes - Ancient Laws for the Empire --   Juan Manuel Cortés-Copete -- 11 Between Tradition and Change -- The Imitatio Principis in the Imperial East --   Giorgios Mitropoulos -- Part 3: Tradition and Power in the Third and Fourth Century CE -- 12 Tradition and Innovation in the Rescript Practice of the Emperor Caracalla --   Elsemieke Daalder -- 13 The Emperor Gallienus and the Senators -- Tradition, Change, and Perception --   Lukas de Blois -- 14 The Role of Tradition for the Negotiation and Legitimization of Imperial Rule in the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires --   Nikolas Hächler -- 15 Stylites on Pillars versus Sanctuaries on Summits -- The Conquest of Traditional Cult Sites by Christian Ascetics in Northern Syria --   Johannes Hahn -- Part 4: The longue durée of Tradition and Power in Roman Discourse -- 16 Mos maiorum and res novae -- How Roman Politics Have Conceived Tradition, Transformation, and Innovation, from the Second Century BCE to the Fourth Century CE --   Stéphane Benoist -- 17 Justinian, the Senate and the Consuls -- A Rhetorical Memory of the Old Constitution --   Francesco Bono -- Index.