Search for dissertations about: "senate"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word senate.

2. 1. Age of rust. : Court and power in the Severan age (188-238 AD)

   Author : Viktoria Laeben-Rosén; Gullög Nordquist; Mats Cullhed; Charlotte Wikander; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; court; power; Severan; Julia; empress; imperial; favourite; legitimacy; senate; influence; access; palace; Rome; ceremony; Commodus; Severus; Caracalla; Pertinax; Macrinus; Elagabal; Julianus; Maximinus; Gordian; Plautianus; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; amici; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : The Severan age has become known as a time when Syrian empresses brought eastern influences to Rome and transformed the stable principate into an absolutist state ready for the dominate. Every tie to the old principate was broken in a conscious attempt to change the fundamental structure of society. READ MORE

4. 2. Honorius and the city of Rome : Authority and legitimacy in late antiquity

   Author : Hans Lejdegård; Arja Karivieri; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Emperor; Rome; relationship; legitimacy; Attalus; power; usurpation; senate; Alaric; propaganda; Honorius; adventus; consensus universorum; late antiquity.; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : This study examines the importance of the concept of Roma et Augustus, the close relationship between the Roman emperor and the city of Rome, in the reign of Honorius, who reigned in AD 395-423. Rome and the emperor were two of the most important and conspicuous manifestations of Roman civilisation and power, around which much of late antique ideology of authority and legitimacy was formulated. READ MORE

5. 3. "Individual and Aggregate Information Effects in the 2006 US Senate Election" and "Do Voters Know Enough About Politics? The Effect of Information on Voting Behavior"

   Author : Mattias Nordin; Eva Mörk; Matz Dahlberg; Henrik Jordahl; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Nationalekonomi; Economics;

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6. 4. Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annales : A Contextual Analysis

   Author : Aske Damtoft Poulsen; Latin; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philology; Classics; Roman Literature; Classical Historiography; Tacitus; Intertextuality;

   Abstract : The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but also a literary artist second to none. His fragmentarily preserved Annales deals with the imperial rule established by the first emperor Augustus, the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 14 – 68). READ MORE

7. 5. Making Enemies : The Logic of Immorality in Ciceronian Oratory

   Author : Isak Hammar; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ancient Rome; late Republic; political culture; Cicero; oratory; immorality; cultural logic; rhetoric; cultural history; invective;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the role played by the topic of immorality in the extant speeches of the Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)and subsequently in the Roman political culture of the late Republic. It traces the portraits of immorality that Cicero made of his political and forensic enemies throughout his political career and his use of immorality as an argument in the Roman Senate, public assembly, and the courts. READ MORE