Consensus, concordia, and the formation of Roman imperial ideology
By: by John Alexander Lobur.
Series: Studies in classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780415977883; 9780203894231
Subjects: Consensus (Social sciences); Propaganda, Roman; Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-68 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : consensus and voice in the formation of the principate; title: Roman consensus and the founding of the principate; title: Order from chaos : the narrative of discord as the early imperial political-cultural template; title: Proscription, the autonomous creation of imperial ideology, and auctoritas; title: Velleius Paterculus and the unified political culture of the early principate; title: Declamation, ideology, and consensus; title: "Presenting" the past : Valerius Maximus and imperial consensus.