Steven H Rutledge
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven H Rutledge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutledge |
| SIGNATURE | RUTLEDGE S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cremutius Cordus, Aulus
Aulus Cremutius Cordus (d. 25 CE ) was an historian who flourished in the time of Augustus and Tiberius.
Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 69–121 CE ) was born sometime between 69 and 75 to an equestrian father, Suetonius Laetus, tribune of the thirteenth legion at the Battle of Bedriacum during the civil war of 69 (Suetonius Otho 10.1).
Delator
Delatores (singularr = delator ) were the notorious prosecutors and informants who helped implement the imperial tyranny under the principate.
Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55–ca. 120 CE ) is considered among Rome's greatest historians.
Imperial Collections and the Narrative of the Princeps
This chapter examines major imperial collections and their significance. What were the major imperial displays within the city, and what did they potentially signify? More importantly, how did such collections and displays come to reflect the values of individual emperors, and how did they function in their larger topographical settings? While numerous studies have looked at imperial collections, those under Augustus have received the lion's shar…
Access and Upkeep
This chapter examines the preservation and upkeep of Rome's cultural artefacts. It identifies three general trends. First, Romans, both individually and collectively, were willing to expend substantial resources in the upkeep of cultural property and the buildings that contained that property. Second, over time, in the interest of its preservation, Romans created an extensive bureaucracy through a series of offices in the interest of protecting s…
Collecting and Acquisition
This chapter examines the progressive importation of cultural material into the city of Rome. It suggests that the means itself, often based on violence or economic muscle, connects such material directly to Roman power by virtue of the methods of acquisition. Evidence suggests that the public display of such material (particularly war spoils) was a distinct good, with a general disapproval of excess acquisition for private use. Part of this impr…
Displaying Domination
This chapter examines how imperial domination by the ruling elite influenced the appearance of the city. The elite used cultural objects both to maintain and perpetuate their control over not merely Roman society, but other peoples as well. Such display was not just an additional luxury of conquest, but inherently bound up with it.
Constructing Social Identity
This chapter examines how the Roman social and historical record was remembered through a variety of cultural material in a manner that reinforced Roman values and ideology beyond those directly associated with military conquest and imperial hegemony. It focuses on three significant categories that encompassed and preserved historical memory: artefacts that dated to early in Rome's history that were reflective of Roman pietas; commemoratives that…
Ancient Rome as a museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting
This volume considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them
Writing Imperial Politics: The Social and Political Background
This chapter considers one of the aspects of Roman antiquity and especially to come to terms with some of the obstacles faced in fully understanding the nature of free expression in ancient Rome. The discussion includes the attendant suppression of libertas and difficulties presented by notion of censorship. The chapter includes surveys of some of the general problems that arise in sources and that render problematic our understanding of this phe…
Reading the Prince: Textual Politics in Tacitus and Pliny
Tiberius’ Philhellenism
Over time, the philhellenism of Tiberius has only been examined piecemeal in a number of studies. His love of things Greek has been cast in the shadows as a result of the more flamboyant philhellenism of emperors such as Nero and Hadrian. In fact, Tiberius’ philhellenism was deeper than any other of the early principes ; the nature of his philhellenism and how it was expressed in his personality, as this paper will discuss, is reflective of his c…
Oratory and Politics in the Empire
This chapter contains section titled: Sources Rhetoric and the Political Class and the “New” Rhetorical Style Freedom of Expression in Its Political Context Oratory and Orators under the Principate Conclusion
Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian
Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries, who bore the main responsibility for institutionalising and enforcing the 'tyranny' of the infamous rulers of the early empire, such as Nero, Caligula and Domitian. Stephen Rutledge's study examines the evidence to ask if this is a fair portrayal. Beginning with a…
Delatores and the Tradition of Violence in Roman Oratory
Delatores And The Tradition Of Violence In Roman Oratory Steven H. Rutledge Two very prominent scholars have asserted that oratory became more violent and aggressive during the early Principate, as delatores (professional accusers and informants) came to dominate the genre. 1 This assumption has a place in a number of studies on Roman history, culture, and literature which accept their premise. 2 However, such an assumption, before it is accepted…
Trajan and Tacitus' Audience: Reader Reception of Annals 1-2
In his monumental work on Tacitus, Syme suggested that Tacitus made veiled criticisms directed against Hadrian in the Annals ; subsequent scholars have not always accepted his suggestion. Yet those scholars who are sceptical of Syme's argument have not yet, on the whole, taken up the question of the reception of Tacitus' work by his contemporaries; this is a peculiar gap, when one considers the politically charged nature of Tacitus' Annals , whic…
Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian
Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries, who bore the main responsibility for institutionalising and enforcing the 'tyranny' of the infamous rulers of the early empire, such as Nero, Caligula and Domitian. Stephen Rutledge's study examines the evidence to ask if this is a fair portrayal. Beginning with a…
Delatores and the Tradition of Violence in Roman Oratory
Delatores And The Tradition Of Violence In Roman Oratory Steven H. Rutledge Two very prominent scholars have asserted that oratory became more violent and aggressive during the early Principate, as delatores (professional accusers and informants) came to dominate the genre. 1 This assumption has a place in a number of studies on Roman history, culture, and literature which accept their premise. 2 However, such an assumption, before it is accepted…
Tiberius’ Philhellenism
Over time, the philhellenism of Tiberius has only been examined piecemeal in a number of studies. His love of things Greek has been cast in the shadows as a result of the more flamboyant philhellenism of emperors such as Nero and Hadrian. In fact, Tiberius’ philhellenism was deeper than any other of the early principes ; the nature of his philhellenism and how it was expressed in his personality, as this paper will discuss, is reflective of his c…
Trajan and Tacitus' Audience: Reader Reception of Annals 1-2
In his monumental work on Tacitus, Syme suggested that Tacitus made veiled criticisms directed against Hadrian in the Annals ; subsequent scholars have not always accepted his suggestion. Yet those scholars who are sceptical of Syme's argument have not yet, on the whole, taken up the question of the reception of Tacitus' work by his contemporaries; this is a peculiar gap, when one considers the politically charged nature of Tacitus' Annals , whic…
Delatores and the Tradition of Violence in Roman Oratory
Delatores And The Tradition Of Violence In Roman Oratory Steven H. Rutledge Two very prominent scholars have asserted that oratory became more violent and aggressive during the early Principate, as delatores (professional accusers and informants) came to dominate the genre. 1 This assumption has a place in a number of studies on Roman history, culture, and literature which accept their premise. 2 However, such an assumption, before it is accepted…
Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian
Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries, who bore the main responsibility for institutionalising and enforcing the 'tyranny' of the infamous rulers of the early empire, such as Nero, Caligula and Domitian. Stephen Rutledge's study examines the evidence to ask if this is a fair portrayal. Beginning with a…
Oratory and Politics in the Empire
This chapter contains section titled: Sources Rhetoric and the Political Class and the “New” Rhetorical Style Freedom of Expression in Its Political Context Oratory and Orators under the Principate Conclusion
Tiberius’ Philhellenism
Over time, the philhellenism of Tiberius has only been examined piecemeal in a number of studies. His love of things Greek has been cast in the shadows as a result of the more flamboyant philhellenism of emperors such as Nero and Hadrian. In fact, Tiberius’ philhellenism was deeper than any other of the early principes ; the nature of his philhellenism and how it was expressed in his personality, as this paper will discuss, is reflective of his c…
Writing Imperial Politics: The Social and Political Background
This chapter considers one of the aspects of Roman antiquity and especially to come to terms with some of the obstacles faced in fully understanding the nature of free expression in ancient Rome. The discussion includes the attendant suppression of libertas and difficulties presented by notion of censorship. The chapter includes surveys of some of the general problems that arise in sources and that render problematic our understanding of this phe…
Reading the Prince: Textual Politics in Tacitus and Pliny
Cremutius Cordus, Aulus
Aulus Cremutius Cordus (d. 25 CE ) was an historian who flourished in the time of Augustus and Tiberius.
Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 69–121 CE ) was born sometime between 69 and 75 to an equestrian father, Suetonius Laetus, tribune of the thirteenth legion at the Battle of Bedriacum during the civil war of 69 (Suetonius Otho 10.1).
Delator
Delatores (singularr = delator ) were the notorious prosecutors and informants who helped implement the imperial tyranny under the principate.
Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55–ca. 120 CE ) is considered among Rome's greatest historians.
Imperial Collections and the Narrative of the Princeps
This chapter examines major imperial collections and their significance. What were the major imperial displays within the city, and what did they potentially signify? More importantly, how did such collections and displays come to reflect the values of individual emperors, and how did they function in their larger topographical settings? While numerous studies have looked at imperial collections, those under Augustus have received the lion's shar…
Access and Upkeep
This chapter examines the preservation and upkeep of Rome's cultural artefacts. It identifies three general trends. First, Romans, both individually and collectively, were willing to expend substantial resources in the upkeep of cultural property and the buildings that contained that property. Second, over time, in the interest of its preservation, Romans created an extensive bureaucracy through a series of offices in the interest of protecting s…
Collecting and Acquisition
This chapter examines the progressive importation of cultural material into the city of Rome. It suggests that the means itself, often based on violence or economic muscle, connects such material directly to Roman power by virtue of the methods of acquisition. Evidence suggests that the public display of such material (particularly war spoils) was a distinct good, with a general disapproval of excess acquisition for private use. Part of this impr…
Displaying Domination
This chapter examines how imperial domination by the ruling elite influenced the appearance of the city. The elite used cultural objects both to maintain and perpetuate their control over not merely Roman society, but other peoples as well. Such display was not just an additional luxury of conquest, but inherently bound up with it.
Constructing Social Identity
This chapter examines how the Roman social and historical record was remembered through a variety of cultural material in a manner that reinforced Roman values and ideology beyond those directly associated with military conquest and imperial hegemony. It focuses on three significant categories that encompassed and preserved historical memory: artefacts that dated to early in Rome's history that were reflective of Roman pietas; commemoratives that…
Ancient Rome as a museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting
This volume considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them
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