Table of Contents
List of figures vii
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations x
List of contributors xii
Introduction: imperial identities in the Roman world Arjan Zuiderhoek Wouter Vanacker 1
1 Between Greece and Rome: forging a primordial identity for an imperial aristocracy Andreas Hartmann 16
2 Rituals of killing: public punishment, munera and the dissemination of Roman values and ideology in the Imperium Romanum Johannes Hahn 36
3 The war cry: ritualized behaviour and Roman identity in ancient warfare, 200 BCE-400 CE Conor Whately 61
4 Uniting the army: the use of rituals commemorating Germanicus to create an imperial identity Gwynaeth McIntyre 78
5 Joining the Empire: the imperial cult as a marker of a shared imperial identity Jesper Majbom Madsen 93
6 Promoting family, creating identity: Septimius Severus and the imperial family in the rituals of the ludi saeculares Jussi Rantala 110
7 Constructing a religious landscape: Terminalia, Fortuna Muliebris and the Augustan ager Romanus Claudia Beltrao Da Rosa 125
8 The monument of Roma and Augustus on the Athenian Acropolis: imperial identities and local traditions Fabio Augusto Morales 141
9 Herodes Atticus, Memnon of Ethiopia and the Athenian ephebeia Joel Allen 162
10 Roman influence on rituals of identification in Egypt Mark Depauw 176
11 The imperial identity of senatorial rituals in Late Antiquity Luise Marion Frenkel 199
Index 219