Verfasst von: | Lange, Ralph [VerfasserIn]  |
Titel: | Leading Rome from a distance |
Titelzusatz: | 300 BCE-37 CE : asserting autocracy through absence |
Verf.angabe: | Ralph Lange |
Verlagsort: | London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney |
Verlag: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Jahr: | 2025 |
Umfang: | ix, 238 Seiten |
Format: | 24 cm |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Classical studies monographs |
Fussnoten: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 207-232 |
ISBN: | 978-1-350-32540-1 |
Abstract: | Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesars hegemony, Augustuss autocracy, and Tiberiuss reign, this book examines how these figures experiences and manipulations of absence established a multipolar focus of political life centred less on the city of Rome, and more on the idea of a single leader. The Roman expansion over Italy and the Mediterranean put the political system under considerable stress, and eventually resulted in a dispersal of leadership and a decentralization of power. Absent generals rivalled their peers in Rome for influence and threatened to surpass them from the provinces. Roman leaders, from Sulla to Tiberius, used absence as a mechanism to act autonomously, but it came at the cost of losing influence and control at the centre. In order to hold influence while being split off from the decision-making powers of the geographical nucleus that was Rome, communication channels to mitigate necessary absences were developed during this period, such as travel, intermediate meetings, letters (propaganda writings) and a complex network of mediators, ultimately forming the circle from which the imperial court emerged. Absent leadership, as it developed throughout the Late Republic, a hitherto neglected issue, eventually became a valuable asset in the institutionalising process of the autocracy of Caesar, Augustus, and Tiberius |
URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313335303332353430317C7C434F50.jpg?sq=2 |
Schlagwörter: | (g)Rom / (s)Herrschaft / (s)Abwesenheit / (z)Geschichte 300 v. Chr.-37  |
| (p)Caesar, Gaius Iulius / (p)Augustus <Römisches Reich, Kaiser> / (p)Tiberius <Römisches Reich, Kaiser>  |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Lange, Ralph: Leading Rome from a distance. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 |(DLC)2024016571 |
Sach-SW: | Ancient history: to c 500 CE |
| Antike |
| Antike griechische und römische Literatur |
| Classical texts |
| Communication studies |
| Geschichtsforschung: Quellen |
| HISTORY / Ancient / Rome |
| Kommunikationswissenschaft |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical |
| Latein |
| Literature: history & criticism |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory |
| Political leaders & leadership |
| Politische Führer und Führung |
Geograph. SW: | Altes Rom |
| Ancient Rome |
| Historische Staaten, Reiche, Territorien und Regionen |
Zeit-SW: | Spanisch-Römische Periode (ca. 200 v. Chr. bis ca. 400 n. Chr.) |
K10plus-PPN: | 1893860795 |