ROMANS ON PARADE: REPRESENTATIONS OF ROMANNESS IN
... Versnel takes a step further toward an understanding of the meaning of the triumph by synthesizing all the prior discussions and arguments and then analyzing the whole ceremony in order to figure out what the triumph meant to the Romans. As big a step as this was, and as helpful and important as Ve ...
... Versnel takes a step further toward an understanding of the meaning of the triumph by synthesizing all the prior discussions and arguments and then analyzing the whole ceremony in order to figure out what the triumph meant to the Romans. As big a step as this was, and as helpful and important as Ve ...
Engineering Power: The Roman Triumph as Material Expression of
... through both fixed and mobile triumphal images: trophies, coins, and inscriptions. Furthermore, the circulation of triumphal imagery out into conquered regions helped reinforce conquest, which brought more plundered material into Rome. In other words, the influx of booty into Rome via conquest and b ...
... through both fixed and mobile triumphal images: trophies, coins, and inscriptions. Furthermore, the circulation of triumphal imagery out into conquered regions helped reinforce conquest, which brought more plundered material into Rome. In other words, the influx of booty into Rome via conquest and b ...
Pompey`s politics and the presentation of his theatre
... In spite of all this triumph Pompey also returned to Rome under unfavourable conditions. The majority of the senate did not respect the great general. He came from a recent noble family of late distinction, he did not rise through the ranks of the cursus honorum in the venerable Roman tradition, and ...
... In spite of all this triumph Pompey also returned to Rome under unfavourable conditions. The majority of the senate did not respect the great general. He came from a recent noble family of late distinction, he did not rise through the ranks of the cursus honorum in the venerable Roman tradition, and ...
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... layers of history coexisted within the city.17 Although this appears to be acknowledged by many scholars, the selection of sources is often subjective. Series of dots are connected to form a picture, yet the dots that do not fit the image’s outline are left out. As described above, a major effort ha ...
... layers of history coexisted within the city.17 Although this appears to be acknowledged by many scholars, the selection of sources is often subjective. Series of dots are connected to form a picture, yet the dots that do not fit the image’s outline are left out. As described above, a major effort ha ...
Lat-Cam-Stage33-culture-2015
... state and are not ashamed to say or do anything that occurs to them.... constantly leaping and raving and beating one another and using abominable language and often reviling even the gods themselves and flinging their clothing at the charioteers and sometimes even departing naked from the show. " ( ...
... state and are not ashamed to say or do anything that occurs to them.... constantly leaping and raving and beating one another and using abominable language and often reviling even the gods themselves and flinging their clothing at the charioteers and sometimes even departing naked from the show. " ( ...
PEGASUS - University of Exeter Blogs
... Solon, a man with strong moral principles, who gave legal protection to the Athenian demos against arbitrary mistreatment and economic exploitation, still thought in rigid class-hierarchy terms: on the one hand the demos, on the other “those with power and wealth”. And Solon did not envisage, let al ...
... Solon, a man with strong moral principles, who gave legal protection to the Athenian demos against arbitrary mistreatment and economic exploitation, still thought in rigid class-hierarchy terms: on the one hand the demos, on the other “those with power and wealth”. And Solon did not envisage, let al ...
Josephus and the Jewish Rebellion
... undoubtedly filed through certain of the arches on their statutory routes. But often enough all major traffic was physically barred. The Arches of Tiberius and Septimius Severus, again in the Roman Forum, were shielded by steps. So too was the four-way Arch of Septimius Severus which stands as an is ...
... undoubtedly filed through certain of the arches on their statutory routes. But often enough all major traffic was physically barred. The Arches of Tiberius and Septimius Severus, again in the Roman Forum, were shielded by steps. So too was the four-way Arch of Septimius Severus which stands as an is ...
Carsten Hjort Lange, Triumphs in the Age of Civil War
... states his subject is the Late Republic, but he goes on to set up and outline issues of triumph and civil war down to the time of Constantine. It is superbly written, clearly and persuasively argued, and well-supported by thoughtful consideration of ancient and modern sources; among the latter, I sh ...
... states his subject is the Late Republic, but he goes on to set up and outline issues of triumph and civil war down to the time of Constantine. It is superbly written, clearly and persuasively argued, and well-supported by thoughtful consideration of ancient and modern sources; among the latter, I sh ...
Denk Triumph
... shows off each success of the Roman army before the people of Rome, creating a spectacle that sprawled through the main streets of Rome. For three days this continued, in which the triumphant general would be celebrated as if he were a god. The Roman Triumph was just as much for the victorious gener ...
... shows off each success of the Roman army before the people of Rome, creating a spectacle that sprawled through the main streets of Rome. For three days this continued, in which the triumphant general would be celebrated as if he were a god. The Roman Triumph was just as much for the victorious gener ...
Roman triumph
The Roman triumph (triumphus) was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Roman forces to victory in the service of the state, or originally and traditionally, one who had successfully completed a foreign war. In Republican tradition, only the Senate could grant a triumph. During the Principate, triumphs became more politicized as manifestations of imperial authority and legitimacy. The origins and development of this honour were obscure: Roman historians placed the first triumph in the mythical past.On the day of his triumph, the general wore a crown of laurel and the all-purple, gold-embroidered triumphal toga picta (""painted"" toga), regalia that identified him as near-divine or near-kingly. He rode in a four-horse chariot through the streets of Rome in unarmed procession with his army, captives and the spoils of his war. At Jupiter's temple on the Capitoline Hill he offered sacrifice and the tokens of his victory to the god. Thereafter he had the right to be described as vir triumphalis (""man of triumph"", later known as triumphator) for the rest of his life. After death, he was represented at his own funeral, and those of his later descendants, by a hired actor who wore his mask (imago) and toga picta.Republican morality required that despite these extraordinary honours, the general conduct himself with dignified humility, as a mortal citizen who triumphed on behalf of Rome's Senate, people and gods. Inevitably, besides its religious and military dimensions, the triumph offered extraordinary opportunities for self-publicity. While most Roman festivals were calendar fixtures, the tradition and law that reserved a triumph to extraordinary victory ensured that its celebration, procession, attendant feasting and public games promoted the general's status and achievement. He could commemorate his Triumph and further enhance his reputation by issuing triumphal coinage, and funding monumental public works and temples. By the Late Republican era, increasing competition among the military-political adventurers who ran Rome's nascent empire ensured that triumphs became more frequent, drawn out and extravagant, prolonged in some cases by several days of public games and entertainments. From the Principate onwards, the Triumph reflected the Imperial order, and the pre-eminence of the Imperial family.Most Roman accounts of triumphs were written to provide their readers with a moral lesson, rather than to provide an accurate description of the triumphal process, procession, rites and their meaning. This scarcity allows for only the most tentative and generalised, and possibly misleading reconstruction of triumphal ceremony, based on the combination of various incomplete accounts from different periods of Roman history. Nevertheless, the triumph is considered a characteristically Roman ceremony which represented Roman wealth, power and grandeur, and has been consciously imitated by medieval and later states in the royal entry and other ceremonial events.