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The Topography of Triumph in Late-Antique Constantinople

  • Sarah Bassett
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Abstract

This paper will examine how the construction and placement of triumphal monuments came to shape the particular urban environment of late antique Constantinople in the period between the foundation of the city under Constantine in 324 and the death of Justinian in 565. It will do so by examining building traditions from three periods. The first, associated with the emperor Constantine (306-337) begins with the foundation of the city in 324 and closes with the death of the emperor in 337. The second emerges at the end of the fourth century during the reign of Theodosius I (379-395) and concludes during the reign of Theodosius II (408-450). The third runs from the reign of Anastasius (491-518) through that of Justinian (527-565). The aim of this survey is to offer a reconstruction of the city’s triumphal topography and with it, a sense of the ways in which monumental construction defined and harnessed imperial ideologies in an urban setting.

Abstract

This paper will examine how the construction and placement of triumphal monuments came to shape the particular urban environment of late antique Constantinople in the period between the foundation of the city under Constantine in 324 and the death of Justinian in 565. It will do so by examining building traditions from three periods. The first, associated with the emperor Constantine (306-337) begins with the foundation of the city in 324 and closes with the death of the emperor in 337. The second emerges at the end of the fourth century during the reign of Theodosius I (379-395) and concludes during the reign of Theodosius II (408-450). The third runs from the reign of Anastasius (491-518) through that of Justinian (527-565). The aim of this survey is to offer a reconstruction of the city’s triumphal topography and with it, a sense of the ways in which monumental construction defined and harnessed imperial ideologies in an urban setting.

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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