La rhétorique civique face à l’empereur

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ID20082929
AuthorsAnna Heller (0009-0005-5606-7495, corresponding author)
Year2022
Pages48-79
Publication date2022-07-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Emperor’s Qualities and Virtues in the Inscriptions from Augustus to the Beginning of Constantine's Reign (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004515093_004
OpenAlexW4318012330
ISBN9789004515093
LanguageFR
Citations received4

Based on the survey of around 30 000 inscriptions from Asia Minor, this paper offers a study of Greek honorific titles awarded to emperors and members of the imperial family. It illuminates the contexts in which such titles are used, their frequency and their chronological and typological distribution. It focuses on the special case of Hadrian, celebrated as “saviour and founder” all over the Greek world, with a particularly intense use of these titles in Miletus and Pergamon. Overall, these two titles are, together with that of “benefactor,” the most common ones for the emperors, strongly in line with the civic discourse elaborated during the Hellenistic period. The moral qualities of the emperors are almost never highlighted through the use of titles, while the universal nature of their power is acknowledged by elaborating on traditional titles (“benefactor or saviour of the whole world”) or by inventing new titles, reflecting a change in the ideology of imperial rule (“master of land and sea”)

Ancient history · Art · Honorific · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy

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