Add to ORKGThe Romans had an expectation that every new initiative, and indeed every war, would end in victory, and accordingly, in triumph – they suffered from what might rather fittingly be described as ‘victory disease’ (a term borrowed from the Japanese, used to describe the general feeling after Pearl Harbor – see Symonds 2011, 88-89). A public triumph was the greatest honour and the grandest spectacle that the Senate and the People of Rome could award to their victorious military commanders, who typically received the honorary title of Imperator during the last two centuries of the libera res publica. At the same time the need for these great Imperators to give full expression to their prestige and charisma and legitimate their power was an inte...
War is competition on the grandest scale, and victory is the end product of competition. The winning...
Our modern attempts to understand the aristocratic values of the Roman Republic have long held that ...
There are three main scholarly approaches to the mechanisms by which the military record of Roman Re...
The Late Republic saw transformations of conventions across a wide rangeof political phenomena and r...
Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension ...
Many of the wars of the Late Republican period were largely civil conflicts, and there was thus a te...
During the Republic the triumph was a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly com...
This paper examines an ancient Roman ceremony, the Triumph, and explains the effect this ritual had ...
Modern scholarly discussion has concentrated on the question as to whether the Alban Mount triumph w...
The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as oppo...
The triumph was the most prestigious accolade a politician and general could receive in republican R...
The transformation of the Roman political system in the first century BCE had led to a corresponding...
The triumphus conferred great military prestige on generals and emperors. Exploiting that prestige f...
This chapter argues that although victory remained absolutely central to royal ideals and imagery, t...
Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman R...
War is competition on the grandest scale, and victory is the end product of competition. The winning...
Our modern attempts to understand the aristocratic values of the Roman Republic have long held that ...
There are three main scholarly approaches to the mechanisms by which the military record of Roman Re...
The Late Republic saw transformations of conventions across a wide rangeof political phenomena and r...
Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension ...
Many of the wars of the Late Republican period were largely civil conflicts, and there was thus a te...
During the Republic the triumph was a medium for negotiating status and prestige within a highly com...
This paper examines an ancient Roman ceremony, the Triumph, and explains the effect this ritual had ...
Modern scholarly discussion has concentrated on the question as to whether the Alban Mount triumph w...
The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as oppo...
The triumph was the most prestigious accolade a politician and general could receive in republican R...
The transformation of the Roman political system in the first century BCE had led to a corresponding...
The triumphus conferred great military prestige on generals and emperors. Exploiting that prestige f...
This chapter argues that although victory remained absolutely central to royal ideals and imagery, t...
Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman R...
War is competition on the grandest scale, and victory is the end product of competition. The winning...
Our modern attempts to understand the aristocratic values of the Roman Republic have long held that ...
There are three main scholarly approaches to the mechanisms by which the military record of Roman Re...