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020			_a9781400824090 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aDG281 _b.C667 2001
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aRoller, Matthew B., _d1966- _e1
245	1	0	_aConstructing autocracy : _baristocrats and emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome / _cMatthew B. Roller.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c(c)2001.
300			_a1 online resource.
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	1		_a"Rome's transition from a republican system of government to an imperial regime comprised more than a century of civil upheaval and rapid institutional change. Yet the establishment of a ruling dynasty, centered around a single leader, came as a cultural and political shock to Rome's aristocracy, who had shared power in the previous political order. How did the imperial regime manage to establish itself and how did the Roman elites from the time of Julius Caesar to Nero make sense of it? In this compelling book, Matthew Roller reveals a "dialogical" process at work, in which writers and philosophers vigorously negotiated and contested the nature and scope of the emperor's authority, despite the consensus that he was the ultimate authority figure in Roman society." "Roller seeks evidence for this "thinking out" of the new order in a wide range of republican and imperial authors, with an emphasis on Lucan and Seneca the Younger. He shows how elites assessed the impact of the imperial system on traditional aristocratic ethics, and examines how several longstanding authority relationships in Roman society - those of master to slave, father to son, and gift-creditor to gift-debtor - became competing models for how the emperor did or should relate to his aristocratic subjects. By revealing this ideological activity to be not merely reactive but also constitutive of the new order, Roller contributes to ongoing debates about the character of the Roman imperial system and about the "politics" of literature."--Jacket.
505	0	0	_tEthics and Imperial Ideology. -- _tThe Ethics of Civil War: Competing Communities in Lucan. -- _tEthics for the Principate: Seneca, Stoicism, and Traditional Roman Morality -- _tFiguring the Emperor. -- _tThe Emperor's Authority: Dining, Exchange, and Social Hierarchy. -- _tModeling the Emperor: The Master-Slave Relationship and Its Alternatives.
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650		0	_aAristocracy (Political science) _zRome.
650		0	_aEmperors _zRome.
650		0	_aClass consciousness _zRome.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=960907&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell