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1	From Obsurity to Fame and Back Again: The Caecilii Metelli in the Roman Republic Simmons, Dustin Wade 11 March 2011 (has links) (PDF) The house of the Caecilii Metelli was one of ancient Rome's most prestigious yet overshadowed plebeian families. Replete with dynamic orators, successful generals, and charismatic women, the Caecilii Metelli lived during the period of Rome's great expansion. Having participated in its transformation into the principal power in the Mediterranean, they survived until the fall of the Republic. By contemporary Roman standards they were a powerful and respected family. Seventeen consulships, nine triumphs, nine members of priestly colleges—including three who became pontifex maximus—and five censors are evidence of their high position in Rome. The trappings of magisterial office and military decorations notwithstanding, the Caecilii Metelli were nevertheless often overshadowed on the stage of Roman politics by stronger personalities and did not receive substantial attention in the ancient sources. This study seeks to understand the political connections and activities of the Caecilii Metelli in Republican Rome. While attention must be given to the appropriate social and historical contexts, the focus must always remain on the individuals and their interactions with each other. Each generation of the Metellan family was involved in varying degrees in the political processes of the time. A deeper understanding of the role of the Metelli in these processes shows that the Metelli can be understood as a family of outsiders who successfully attempted to make their presence felt in Roman politics, but were ultimately doomed to fail in the collapse of the Republic. They can serve as a paradigm for understanding the struggles of aristocratic families to maintain power and influence throughout the Roman Republic. Caecilius Metellus prosopography Republican Rome Roman politics Classics Comparative Literature
2	O Pró-Milone e a justificativa da violência na defesa do estado no pensamento político de Cícero / The Pro Milone and the justification of the violence in defense of the state at Cicero´s political thought Ladeira, Felipe Coelho de Souza 17 September 2008 (has links) O presente estudo tem por objetivo contribuir para a compreensão do pensamento político de Cícero no contexto do Pro Milone. Analisar-se-ão, portanto, a construção retórica do discurso, evidenciando o modo como a conduta de Clódio justificaria a violência de Milão no intuito de preservar o Estado. Ao mesmo tempo, a partir de uma análise histórica da carreira de Clódio, pode-se refletir sobre os aspectos políticos do seu relacionamento com Cícero e Milão, contrapondo os argumentos apresentados no discurso. / This dissertation aims at contributing to the discussion and comprehension of Ciceros political thinking in the context of the Pro Milone. The speech rhetoric is analyzed, focusing on how Clodius would justify the Milan violence as a means to preserve the state. Based on analyzes of Clodiuss career, this dissertation focuses on the political aspects of Clodiuss relationship with Cicero and Milan, contrasting the arguments presented in the speech Cícero Cícero Clódio Clodius Política romana Pro Milone Pro Milone Roman politics
3	O Pró-Milone e a justificativa da violência na defesa do estado no pensamento político de Cícero / The Pro Milone and the justification of the violence in defense of the state at Cicero´s political thought Felipe Coelho de Souza Ladeira 17 September 2008 (has links) O presente estudo tem por objetivo contribuir para a compreensão do pensamento político de Cícero no contexto do Pro Milone. Analisar-se-ão, portanto, a construção retórica do discurso, evidenciando o modo como a conduta de Clódio justificaria a violência de Milão no intuito de preservar o Estado. Ao mesmo tempo, a partir de uma análise histórica da carreira de Clódio, pode-se refletir sobre os aspectos políticos do seu relacionamento com Cícero e Milão, contrapondo os argumentos apresentados no discurso. / This dissertation aims at contributing to the discussion and comprehension of Ciceros political thinking in the context of the Pro Milone. The speech rhetoric is analyzed, focusing on how Clodius would justify the Milan violence as a means to preserve the state. Based on analyzes of Clodiuss career, this dissertation focuses on the political aspects of Clodiuss relationship with Cicero and Milan, contrasting the arguments presented in the speech Cícero Clódio Política romana Pro Milone Cícero Clodius Pro Milone Roman politics
4	O império romano de Aurélio Vítor / The Roman Empire of Aurelius Victor Antiqueira, Moisés 27 November 2012 (has links) Um estudo historiográfico das Historiae abbreuiatae de Aurélio Vítor. Nisto consiste o presente trabalho, que procura determinar de que modo o referido historiador, no ocaso do reinado de Constâncio II, compôs uma narrativa dedicada à história do Império romano em sua totalidade. Para tanto, em primeiro lugar buscamos definir a natureza da obra. Em que pese os nítidos elementos biográficos que a integram, assim como a brevidade do texto, a obra de Aurélio Vítor deve ser pensada enquanto uma história, na medida em que o objetivo do autor se voltava para a exposição das causas que teriam condicionado o curso dos acontecimentos, da batalha de Ácio até o penúltimo ano do governo de Constâncio II. Desta forma, em um segundo momento, analisamos as estratégias de periodização e as concepções que Aurélio Vítor adotou a fim de contemplar a história imperial. As ações e o caráter moral dos sucessivos imperadores emergem nas Historiae abbreuiatae como o motor a partir do qual se movimentava a história da era imperial romana. Isto implicava, pois, o reconhecimento das oscilações que o mundo romano teria vivenciado ao longo de quase quatro séculos e as contradições que animavam a conduta das personagens históricas. Do que resultava, igualmente, na impossibilidade de se identificar um modelo ideal de imperador, em razão dos fatores e das circunstâncias distintas que marcariam o desenrolar da história do Império romano, como narrada por Aurélio Vítor. / A historiographical study of Aurelius Victors Historiae abbreuiatae. That is what defines the present work, which tries to ascertain how the aforementioned historian settled up a narrative about the history of the Roman Empire in the twilight of the reign of Constantius II. Therefore, we discuss at first the nature of the work. Despite the clear biographical trend we can observe in the text, as well as the brevity that characterizes it, the work of Aurelius Victor should be seen as a historical narrative since the author aimed to expose both the causes and the course of Roman imperial history, from the Battle of Actium to the last but one year of Constantius IIs reign. Thereupon we examine the strategies of periodization and the perspectives defined by Aurelius Victor in order to compose his text. In the Historiae abbreuiatae, the conduct showed by the emperors and their moral character represented the driving force of the narrative. That led the author to emphasize the ups and downs of Roman past in almost four hundred years of history. In this sense, Aurelius Victor did not lose track of some contradictions that encourage historical figures into action. That resulted in Aurelius Victors failure to identify an idealized model of Roman emperor due to distinct elements and circunstances that he himself pointed out in the course of the history of the Roman Empire. Aurélio Vítor Aurelius Victor Historiografia tardo-antiga Império romano Late antique historiography Política romana Cultura romana. Roman empire Roman politics Roman culture.
5	O império romano de Aurélio Vítor / The Roman Empire of Aurelius Victor Moisés Antiqueira 27 November 2012 (has links) Um estudo historiográfico das Historiae abbreuiatae de Aurélio Vítor. Nisto consiste o presente trabalho, que procura determinar de que modo o referido historiador, no ocaso do reinado de Constâncio II, compôs uma narrativa dedicada à história do Império romano em sua totalidade. Para tanto, em primeiro lugar buscamos definir a natureza da obra. Em que pese os nítidos elementos biográficos que a integram, assim como a brevidade do texto, a obra de Aurélio Vítor deve ser pensada enquanto uma história, na medida em que o objetivo do autor se voltava para a exposição das causas que teriam condicionado o curso dos acontecimentos, da batalha de Ácio até o penúltimo ano do governo de Constâncio II. Desta forma, em um segundo momento, analisamos as estratégias de periodização e as concepções que Aurélio Vítor adotou a fim de contemplar a história imperial. As ações e o caráter moral dos sucessivos imperadores emergem nas Historiae abbreuiatae como o motor a partir do qual se movimentava a história da era imperial romana. Isto implicava, pois, o reconhecimento das oscilações que o mundo romano teria vivenciado ao longo de quase quatro séculos e as contradições que animavam a conduta das personagens históricas. Do que resultava, igualmente, na impossibilidade de se identificar um modelo ideal de imperador, em razão dos fatores e das circunstâncias distintas que marcariam o desenrolar da história do Império romano, como narrada por Aurélio Vítor. / A historiographical study of Aurelius Victors Historiae abbreuiatae. That is what defines the present work, which tries to ascertain how the aforementioned historian settled up a narrative about the history of the Roman Empire in the twilight of the reign of Constantius II. Therefore, we discuss at first the nature of the work. Despite the clear biographical trend we can observe in the text, as well as the brevity that characterizes it, the work of Aurelius Victor should be seen as a historical narrative since the author aimed to expose both the causes and the course of Roman imperial history, from the Battle of Actium to the last but one year of Constantius IIs reign. Thereupon we examine the strategies of periodization and the perspectives defined by Aurelius Victor in order to compose his text. In the Historiae abbreuiatae, the conduct showed by the emperors and their moral character represented the driving force of the narrative. That led the author to emphasize the ups and downs of Roman past in almost four hundred years of history. In this sense, Aurelius Victor did not lose track of some contradictions that encourage historical figures into action. That resulted in Aurelius Victors failure to identify an idealized model of Roman emperor due to distinct elements and circunstances that he himself pointed out in the course of the history of the Roman Empire. Aurélio Vítor Historiografia tardo-antiga Império romano Política romana Cultura romana. Aurelius Victor Late antique historiography Roman empire Roman politics Roman culture.
6	BEFORE ‘CHURCH’: POLITICAL, ETHNO-RELIGIOUS, AND THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE COLLECTIVE DESIGNATION OF PAULINE CHRIST-FOLLOWERS AS EKKLĒSIAI Korner, Ralph J. 04 1900 (has links) <p>In this study I situate socio-historically the adoption of the term <em>ekklēsia</em> as a permanent collective identity by early Christ-followers, particularly Pauline ones. I contribute to at least four areas of <em>ekklēsia</em> research. First, my examination of almost 1900 inscriptional occurrences of the word <em>ekklēsia</em> indicates a lack of evidence for a non-civic association self-identifying collectively as an <em>ekklēsia</em>. Second, I develop the preliminary observation by Runesson, Binder, and Olsson (2008) that <em>ekklēsia</em> can refer either to a gathering of Jews or to the self-designation of a Jewish community, i.e., that <em>ekklēsia</em> is one among several terms that can be translated into English as “synagogue.” This problematizes, from an institutional perspective, suggestions common in scholarship that Paul was “parting ways” with Judaism(s), ‘Jewishness,’ or Jewish organizational forms. Third, given both that non-Jewish Christ-followers could not be designated using the ethno-religious term “Israel” and that <em>ekklēsia</em> is a Jewish synagogue term, Paul’s designation of his multi-ethnic communities as <em>ekklēsiai</em> allowed gentiles qua gentiles to share with Torah observant Jews qua Jews in God’s salvation history with Israel. <em>Ekklēsia</em>, thus, does not indicate an inherently supersessionist identity for communities designated by this term. Fourth, Paul’s adoption of a political identity (civic <em>ekklēsia</em>) for his communities need not imply his promotion of counter-imperial civic ideology. Greek literary (e.g., Plutarch) and inscriptional evidence suggests that if an Imperial period non-civic group (e.g., voluntary association) self-designated as an <em>ekklēsia</em>, it could have been perceived as a positive, rather than as an anti-Roman, participant in society.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ekklēsia synagogue New Testament voluntary associations Greco-Roman politics Apocrypha Philo Josephus patristic Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
7	Roman Imperial Accessions: Politics, Constituencies, and Communicative Acts Bourgeois, Brandon Edward January 2018 (has links) No description available. Classical Studies Ancient Civilizations Ancient History Ancient Languages History Rhetoric Communication Political Science Medieval History Medieval Literature Middle Ages Roman Imperial Accessions Roman politics Roman emperors inaugurations accession speeches inaugural addresses ancient rhetoric ancient politics ancient communication Roman constituencies imperial succession Roman imperial succession
8	Romulus, Quirinus et Victoria : la construction d’un destin collectif à Rome entre 338 et 290 av. J.-C. / Romulus, Quirinus and Victoria : construction of a collective destiny in Rome between 338 and 290 B.C. Vé, Karlis 22 November 2014 (has links) La période entre 338 et 290 av. J.-C. fut un tournant pour Rome, car elle vit la soumission des Latins et la défaite des Samnites, ce qui permit à l’Urbs de devenir la première puissance italique. On assista donc à l’avènement d’un impérialisme romain. Se pose alors la question de l’idéologie d’État de cette Rome en transition. Comme cette expansion fut accompagnée par la construction, à Rome, de dix nouveaux temples, souvent dédiés à des divinités nouvelles, et que toute divinité exprimait une idéologie, il nous a semblé possible de reconstituer, dans ses grands traits, cette idéologie d’État grâce aux nouvelles divinités et leurs sanctuaires. Nous avons donc choisi d’analyser deux nouveaux temples : celui de Quirinus et celui de Victoria. Le choix de Quirinus s’explique par le fait que ce dieu avait, on l’a montré, déjà été assimilé à Romulus ; quant à Victoria, on l’a choisie pour trois raisons : elle était une déesse de la victoire ; son temple fut élevé au-Dessus du Lupercal, au cœur même de la « Rome de Romulus » ; grâce aux fouilles de P. Pensabene, on peut reconstituer son sanctuaire. Puis, on a analysé les deux temples et leurs divinités à travers les concepts (cadre social de la mémoire, mémoire collective) issus de la sociologie de M. Halbwachs. On a ainsi constaté qu’à travers ces temples, l’élite dirigeante avait diffusé auprès du peuple une nouvelle identité collective affirmant le caractère exceptionnel de Rome et contenant l’idée d’une expansion illimitée de l’Urbs. Cette création d’une identité romaine impérialiste se fondant sur Romulus et la religion en général, on peut l’interpréter comme la construction d’un destin collectif pour Rome. / The period between 338 and 290 B.C. saw a sea change for Rome, because the subjugation of the Latins and the defeat of the Samnites allowed her to become the main italic power, and witnessed the advent of a roman imperialism. In this context arises the problem of the state ideology of this Rome in transition. As this expansion was accompanied by the construction of ten new temples in Rome, frequently consecrated to new deities, each of them expressing a specific ideology, we thought it possible to reconstruct the new state ideology through an analysis of the deities and shrines in question. So, for our study, we chose two new temples, those of Quirinus and of Victoria. Quirinus because of his assimilation to Romulus, Victoria because she was a deity of victory; her shrine was built above the Lupercal, at the heart of the “Rome of Romulus”; and because her temple can be reconstructed thanks to the excavations of P. Pensabene. Then we analyzed the two temples and their godheads through concepts (social frame of memory; collective memory) taken from the sociology of M. Halbwachs. In this way we came to the conclusion that, through these two shrines, the ruling élite had tried to communicate to the common people a new collective identity promoting the exceptionality of Rome and her unlimited powers of expansion. This construction of an imperialistic roman identity being based on Romulus and the religion in general, one can interpret it as construction of a collective destiny for Rome. République romaine Guerre latine Guerres samnites Religion romaine Politique romaine Romulus Quirinus Victoria Énée Temples Palatin Lupercal Lupercales Casa Romuli Identité romaine Impérialisme romain Destin collectif Mémoire collective Cadres sociaux de la mémoire Lieux de mémoire M. Halbwachs Roman Republic Latin war Samnite wars Roman religion Roman politics Romulus Quirinus Victoria Aeneas Temples Palatine Lupercal Casa Romuli Roman identity Roman imperialism Collective destiny Collective memory Social frames of memory Realms of memory (lieux de mémoire) M. Halbwachs 937

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