Add to ORKGIn order to effectively rule any leader or group needs to legitimise their power to his subjects. Max Weber describes three ideal types of legitimation that can be distinguished throughout history. In this paper the visual language used by Octavianus during the civil war will be examined and shall be analysed for their relation to the aforementioned three ideal types of authority. To explain via the change in type of Herrschaft the major shift in the Roman political system. Octavianus’ use of propaganda shifts from predominantly charismatic authority over the course of the civil war to a more sustainable legitimation relying ever more on the traditional type
This thesis analyses the self-presentation of the Roman aristocracy during the triumviral period. A...
The stability of the Roman empire requires substantial and specific explanation. What induced the qu...
<p class="Poromisin">In 2014 we celebrated the bimillennial anniversary of the death of Augustus, on...
In order to effectively rule any leader or group needs to legitimise their power to his subjects. Ma...
Septimius Severus, according to Cassius Dio, told his sons to enrich the soldiers and look down on a...
This paper is an examination of the methods and utilizations of propaganda in the Late Republic/Earl...
The author’s aim was to present two literary traditions which refer to the way in which the image of...
This book is the first history of civil war in the later Roman Empire to be written in English. It a...
In the article on the basis of scientific publications of Russian and foreign scientists, as well as...
The instability of the mid-third century AD included unique transformations in how the Roman emperor...
Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the firs...
This essay explores the theme of the legitimacy of power in Weber from the standpoints of social sci...
Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension ...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
Recent scholarship on the Roman emperor has emphasized the ‘power of images’ and the ‘symbolics of p...
This thesis analyses the self-presentation of the Roman aristocracy during the triumviral period. A...
The stability of the Roman empire requires substantial and specific explanation. What induced the qu...
<p class="Poromisin">In 2014 we celebrated the bimillennial anniversary of the death of Augustus, on...
In order to effectively rule any leader or group needs to legitimise their power to his subjects. Ma...
Septimius Severus, according to Cassius Dio, told his sons to enrich the soldiers and look down on a...
This paper is an examination of the methods and utilizations of propaganda in the Late Republic/Earl...
The author’s aim was to present two literary traditions which refer to the way in which the image of...
This book is the first history of civil war in the later Roman Empire to be written in English. It a...
In the article on the basis of scientific publications of Russian and foreign scientists, as well as...
The instability of the mid-third century AD included unique transformations in how the Roman emperor...
Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the firs...
This essay explores the theme of the legitimacy of power in Weber from the standpoints of social sci...
Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension ...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
Recent scholarship on the Roman emperor has emphasized the ‘power of images’ and the ‘symbolics of p...
This thesis analyses the self-presentation of the Roman aristocracy during the triumviral period. A...
The stability of the Roman empire requires substantial and specific explanation. What induced the qu...
<p class="Poromisin">In 2014 we celebrated the bimillennial anniversary of the death of Augustus, on...