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The Late Republican Triumph

Continuity and Change
  • Carsten Hjort Lange
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Abstract

The Late Republic saw transformations of conventions across a wide range of political phenomena and rituals, including that of the most prestigious of all war rituals, the triumph. During the Republic the triumph served as a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly competitive aristocratic society, whereas during the Principate it was a medium for negotiating status and prestige under a monarchy. This chapter seeks to address certain issues relevant to later Imperial developments: turning points in Late Republican triumphal history, the granting of triumphs in absentia, monopolisation of the triumph, triumphal competition and civil war. This promises to shed light on the political impact of the Late Republican triumph. Scholarly consensus suggests that the Augustan period was a turning point in the history of the Roman triumph. While this is undoubtedly true, there were other key processes and moments during the Late Republic. This chapter will argue that Imperial triumphs cannot and should not be isolated from the Late Republican transformation of the Roman triumph.

Abstract

The Late Republic saw transformations of conventions across a wide range of political phenomena and rituals, including that of the most prestigious of all war rituals, the triumph. During the Republic the triumph served as a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly competitive aristocratic society, whereas during the Principate it was a medium for negotiating status and prestige under a monarchy. This chapter seeks to address certain issues relevant to later Imperial developments: turning points in Late Republican triumphal history, the granting of triumphs in absentia, monopolisation of the triumph, triumphal competition and civil war. This promises to shed light on the political impact of the Late Republican triumph. Scholarly consensus suggests that the Augustan period was a turning point in the history of the Roman triumph. While this is undoubtedly true, there were other key processes and moments during the Late Republic. This chapter will argue that Imperial triumphs cannot and should not be isolated from the Late Republican transformation of the Roman triumph.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Inhalt IX
  3. Abkürzungen XI
  4. Verzeichnis der Karten XII
  5. Der römische Triumph in Prinzipat und Spätantike 1
  6. Teil 1: Der römische Triumph im frühen Prinzipat
  7. The Late Republican Triumph 29
  8. Die Transformation des Triumphes in augusteischer Zeit 59
  9. Tracht, Insignien und Performanz des Triumphators zwischen später Republik und früher Kaiserzeit 83
  10. Die Triumphe der julisch-claudischen Zeit 103
  11. Teil 2: Der römische Triumph in der hohen Kaiserzeit
  12. Josephus’ Portrait of the Flavian Triumph in Historical and Literary Context 125
  13. Die Dynamik von Herrschaftsdarstellung und Triumphideologie im ausgehenden 1. und frühen 2. Jh. 177
  14. Sieg und Triumph in der Zeit von Antoninus Pius bis Commodus 215
  15. Der Triumph im Dienste dynastischer Politik 255
  16. Die Stadt Rom als triumphaler Raum und ideologischer Rahmen in der Kaiserzeit 283
  17. Turning Victory into Defeat 317
  18. Teil 3: Der römische Triumph im dezentralisierten Imperium
  19. Two Third-Century Triumphal Decennalia (ad 202 and 262) 337
  20. Zwischen Severus Alexanders Triumph über die Sāsāniden im Jahre 233 und den Triumphfeierlichkeiten Diocletians und Maximians im Jahre 303 357
  21. Triumph in the Decentralized Empire 397
  22. Die Triumphatordarstellung auf Münzen und Medaillons in Prinzipat und Spätantike 419
  23. Teil 4: Der römische Triumph in der Spätantike
  24. Der römische Triumph und das Christentum 455
  25. Roma tardoantica come spazio della rappresentazione trionfale 487
  26. The Topography of Triumph in Late-Antique Constantinople 511
  27. The Decline and Fall of the Ancient Triumph 555
  28. Indizes (Namen, Orte, Begriffe, triumphale Inszenierungen) 569
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