Martijn Icks
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martijn Icks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Icks |
| SIGNATURE | ICKS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5031-7765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE)
Character Assassination and Reputation Management: Theory and Applications
This lively book offers the first comprehensive examination of character assassination. In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous individual reputations. How does character assassination work and when or why does it not? Are character attacks getting worse in the age of social media? Why do many people fail when they are under chara…
Three Usurpers in Rome
Although most emperors from Diocletian onwards no longer resided in Rome, the city continued to be held in high regard throughout the fourth and fifth centuries. During this period, three usurpers once again established the Urbs Aeterna as their capital: Maxentius (306–312 CE), Nepotian (350 CE), and Priscus Attalus (409–410 CE). This article examines how each of them sought to employ the unique prestige of Rome as an asset to strengthen their cl…
Laurens E. Tacoma, Roman Political Culture: Seven Studies of the Senate and City Councils of Italy from the First to the Sixth Century AD
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Kept in the Dark: Narratives of Imperial Seclusion in Late Antiquity
This paper explores the role of imperial accessibility in late-antique panegyric and historiography, focusing on the late 4th and early 5th centuries. In particular, it discusses complaints about increased imperial seclusion in the works of Pacatus, Synesius, Ammianus Marcellinus, the Historia Augusta biographer, and others. These authors and orators developed the image of the princeps clausus: the aloof, secluded ruler who dwells at the heart of…
Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management
In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous reputations. People mobilize significant material and psychological resources to defend themselves against such attacks. How does character assassination "work," and when does it not? Why do many targets fall so easily when they are under character attack? How can one prevent at…
Creating Tyrants in Ancient Rome
This chapter discusses posthumous character assassination, in particular as it relates to so-called ‘memory sanctions.’ In the Roman Empire, where ‘memory space’ was a limited and precious commodity, members of the elite, including emperors, set great store by being remembered—and being remembered positively, as exempla of virtue and honor. Historians and biographers played a key role in the creation and preservation of public memory. If a deceas…
Creating Tyrants in Ancient Rome: Character Assassination and Imperial Investiture
Character assassination is not necessarily limited to the living. After all, someone's "character"—his or her good reputation—can endure long after the person in question has passed on. The Roman Empire offers many examples of posthumous character assassination. Since it was a risky business to antagonize living emperors, critics usually aimed their arrows at those rulers who were safely dead. Yet that did not make their attacks any less vicious—…
Character Assassination throughout the Ages
Using a variety of cases from history and today's life, the book examines character attackers targeting the private lives, behavior, values, and identity of their victims. Numerous historical examples
Elagabalus (deity)
Elagabalus – also Aelagabalus, Helagabalus, and so forth – was the chief god of the Syrian town of Emesa, modern‐day Homs, in Roman imperial times
Bad Emperors on the Rise: Negative assessments of imperial investitures, AD 284–395
In this article, the author examines how imperial investiture rituals, which normally served to boost the prestige of aspiring rulers, could be turned against them by hostile authors. In their descriptions, these authors deviated from the ideal patterns to make imperial candidates look bad or ridiculous. The focus is on the period AD 284–395. Three cases are analyzed in detail, namely those of Maximinus Daia (AD 305), Jovian (AD 363) and Procopiu…
From Priest To Emperor To Priest-Emperor: The Failed Legitimation Of Elagabalus
Among the emperors of Rome, Elagabalus is famous - or rather, infamous - for his devotion to an exotic god, whom he worshipped with extravagant rites and placed at the head of the Roman pantheon, usurping Jupiter's supreme position. Moreover, the ancient literary sources accuse the so-called priest-emperor of just about every sort of scandalous behaviour and malpractice imaginable, from corruption and cruelty to a whole range of sexual escapades.…
Empire Of The Sun? Civic Responses To The Rise And Fall Of Sol Elagabal In The Roman Empire
The Roman elite was appalled by these actions, as were the soldiers, who could not identify themselves with an emperor who seemed obsessed with an exotic cult and did nothing which they considered positive. In early 222 AD, the praetorian guard revolted. During its long and turbulent history, the city of Rome witnessed many changes in its religious institutions and traditions. For many centuries, these came to pass under the benevolent eye of Iup…
Chapter Eighteen. Heliogabalus, A Monster On The Roman Throne: The Literary Construction Of A Bad Emperor
Reading the accounts of authors like Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio, one might get the impression that the Roman empire has only been ruled by two kinds of emperor: the good and the bad. This chapter discusses the case study of Heliogabalus to examine the ways in which Greco-Roman authors used literary loci communes to distinguish between ?good? and ?bad? rulers. It discusses the ethnic stereotyping of Heliogabalus because of his Syrian back…
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Chapter Eighteen. Heliogabalus, A Monster On The Roman Throne: The Literary Construction Of A Bad Emperor
Reading the accounts of authors like Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio, one might get the impression that the Roman empire has only been ruled by two kinds of emperor: the good and the bad. This chapter discusses the case study of Heliogabalus to examine the ways in which Greco-Roman authors used literary loci communes to distinguish between ?good? and ?bad? rulers. It discusses the ethnic stereotyping of Heliogabalus because of his Syrian back…
Empire Of The Sun? Civic Responses To The Rise And Fall Of Sol Elagabal In The Roman Empire
The Roman elite was appalled by these actions, as were the soldiers, who could not identify themselves with an emperor who seemed obsessed with an exotic cult and did nothing which they considered positive. In early 222 AD, the praetorian guard revolted. During its long and turbulent history, the city of Rome witnessed many changes in its religious institutions and traditions. For many centuries, these came to pass under the benevolent eye of Iup…
From Priest To Emperor To Priest-Emperor: The Failed Legitimation Of Elagabalus
Among the emperors of Rome, Elagabalus is famous - or rather, infamous - for his devotion to an exotic god, whom he worshipped with extravagant rites and placed at the head of the Roman pantheon, usurping Jupiter's supreme position. Moreover, the ancient literary sources accuse the so-called priest-emperor of just about every sort of scandalous behaviour and malpractice imaginable, from corruption and cruelty to a whole range of sexual escapades.…
Elagabalus (deity)
Elagabalus – also Aelagabalus, Helagabalus, and so forth – was the chief god of the Syrian town of Emesa, modern‐day Homs, in Roman imperial times
Bad Emperors on the Rise: Negative assessments of imperial investitures, AD 284–395
In this article, the author examines how imperial investiture rituals, which normally served to boost the prestige of aspiring rulers, could be turned against them by hostile authors. In their descriptions, these authors deviated from the ideal patterns to make imperial candidates look bad or ridiculous. The focus is on the period AD 284–395. Three cases are analyzed in detail, namely those of Maximinus Daia (AD 305), Jovian (AD 363) and Procopiu…
Creating Tyrants in Ancient Rome
This chapter discusses posthumous character assassination, in particular as it relates to so-called ‘memory sanctions.’ In the Roman Empire, where ‘memory space’ was a limited and precious commodity, members of the elite, including emperors, set great store by being remembered—and being remembered positively, as exempla of virtue and honor. Historians and biographers played a key role in the creation and preservation of public memory. If a deceas…
Creating Tyrants in Ancient Rome: Character Assassination and Imperial Investiture
Character assassination is not necessarily limited to the living. After all, someone's "character"—his or her good reputation—can endure long after the person in question has passed on. The Roman Empire offers many examples of posthumous character assassination. Since it was a risky business to antagonize living emperors, critics usually aimed their arrows at those rulers who were safely dead. Yet that did not make their attacks any less vicious—…
Character Assassination throughout the Ages
Using a variety of cases from history and today's life, the book examines character attackers targeting the private lives, behavior, values, and identity of their victims. Numerous historical examples
Kept in the Dark: Narratives of Imperial Seclusion in Late Antiquity
This paper explores the role of imperial accessibility in late-antique panegyric and historiography, focusing on the late 4th and early 5th centuries. In particular, it discusses complaints about increased imperial seclusion in the works of Pacatus, Synesius, Ammianus Marcellinus, the Historia Augusta biographer, and others. These authors and orators developed the image of the princeps clausus: the aloof, secluded ruler who dwells at the heart of…
Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management
In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous reputations. People mobilize significant material and psychological resources to defend themselves against such attacks. How does character assassination "work," and when does it not? Why do many targets fall so easily when they are under character attack? How can one prevent at…
Three Usurpers in Rome
Although most emperors from Diocletian onwards no longer resided in Rome, the city continued to be held in high regard throughout the fourth and fifth centuries. During this period, three usurpers once again established the Urbs Aeterna as their capital: Maxentius (306–312 CE), Nepotian (350 CE), and Priscus Attalus (409–410 CE). This article examines how each of them sought to employ the unique prestige of Rome as an asset to strengthen their cl…
Laurens E. Tacoma, Roman Political Culture: Seven Studies of the Senate and City Councils of Italy from the First to the Sixth Century AD
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Character Assassination and Reputation Management: Theory and Applications
This lively book offers the first comprehensive examination of character assassination. In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous individual reputations. How does character assassination work and when or why does it not? Are character attacks getting worse in the age of social media? Why do many people fail when they are under chara…
The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE)
History (11 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (10 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Sociology (5 works)