Sawinski / Ziolkowski Germanicus Caesar

History and Memory
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-515-13446-0
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 8, 170 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Monarchies

The historical memory of the principate is for obvious reasons dominated by the emperors, with one exception: Germanicus Caesar, who, though not a ruler, appears in the sources as if he had been one. Chosen by Augustus as his ultimate heir, the embodiment of the dynastic principle, yet never the emperor; put at the head of one third of the Roman army to reconquer Germania, but recalled before the task's completion; the last to hold an imperium which made him almost a co-regent of the emperor, cut short by his sudden death – he reflects like no one the transition of the principate from the Augustan phase to its mature form. Equally significant is the longevity of the memory of his person and the variety of ways in which it was expressed: the only non-emperor commemorated in the he figures on coins struck long after the end of the Julio-Claudians and an edict of his, quoted in a legal text of the 3 century, appears in the Digesta. To give justice to his memorability, our contributions approach him in the perspective of not only history, classical philology, art history/archaeology and numismatics, but also Egyptology and Roman law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sawinski, Pawel

Ziolkowski, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Sawinski, Pawel
Pawel Sawinskis current research activities are focused on the history of Julio-Claudian dynasty. He is currently preparing a biography of Emperor Tiberius.

Ziolkowski, Adam
Adam Ziolkowski (born 1951) is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Warsaw. His main fields of interest are the history of Archaic and Republican Rome, topography of the ancient City of Rome and Late Antiquity.