LEADER 04203nam 22006612 450 001 9910453594603321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-19918-2 010 $a1-281-77586-X 010 $a9786611775865 010 $a0-511-42389-6 010 $a0-511-51181-7 010 $a0-511-42272-5 010 $a0-511-42437-X 010 $a0-511-42206-7 010 $a0-511-42338-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000542546 035 $a(EBL)355456 035 $a(OCoLC)294758962 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129353 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129353 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10070767 035 $a(PQKB)10862346 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511511813 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC355456 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL355456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10246219 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL177586 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000542546 100 $a20090312d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium $ethe rhetoric of empire /$fSarolta A. Taka?cs$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 167 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-40793-1 311 $a0-521-87865-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCh. 1. Republican Rome's Rhetorical Pattern of Political Authority -- Virtual Reality: To Win Fame and Practice Virtue -- Creation of a Public Image: Rome's Virtuous Man -- Virtue and Remembrance: The Tomb of the Scipiones -- Variations on the Theme: Cicero's Virtuous Roman -- Pater Patriae: Symbol of Authority and Embodiment of Tradition -- Virtuous Father: Gaius Julius Caesar -- Ch. 2. Empire of Words and Men -- Augustus's Achievements: A Memory Shaped -- Horace's Poem 3.2: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori -- Nero: What an Artist Dies with Me! -- Vespasian: The Upstart from Reate -- Trajan: Jupiter on Earth -- Maximus: Hollywood's Ideal Roman -- Ch. 3. Appropriation of a Pattern Mending the Known World Order -- New World Order -- Constantine, Very Wisely, Seldom Said "No" -- Pagan's Last Stand -- Augustine: The Christian Cicero -- Claudian's On the Fourth Consulate of Honorius -- Ch. 4. Power of Rhetoric -- Last Roman Emperor: Justinian -- First Byzantine Emperor: Heraclius -- View to the West: Charlemagne -- Back to the East: A Theocratic State? 330 $aIn The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium, Sarolta Taka?cs examines the role of the Roman emperor, who was the single most important law-giving authority in Roman society. Emperors had to embody the qualities or virtues espoused by Rome's ruling classes. Political rhetoric shaped the ancients' reality and played a part in the upkeep of their political structures. Taka?cs isolates a reccurring cultural pattern, a conscious appropriation of symbols and signs (verbal and visual) belonging to the Roman Empire. She shows that many contemporary concepts of 'empire' have Roman precedents, which are reactivations or reuses of well-established ancient patterns. Showing the dialectical interactivity between the constructed past and present, Taka?cs also focuses on the issue of classical legacy through these virtues, which are not simply repeated or adapted cultural patterns, but are tools for the legitimization of political power, authority, and even domination of one nation over another. 517 3 $aThe Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome & Byzantium 606 $aRhetoric, Ancient 607 $aRome$xPolitics and government 607 $aByzantine Empire$xPolitics and government 615 0$aRhetoric, Ancient. 676 $a320.937 700 $aTaka?cs$b Sarolta A.$0183254 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453594603321 996 $aThe construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium$92478486 997 $aUNINA