Search for dissertations about: "Antikens kultur och samhällsliv"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the words Antikens kultur och samhällsliv.

  2. 1. Weeping for the res publica : Tears in Roman political culture

    Author : Johan Vekselius; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antikens och forntidens historia; Antikens Rom; Romersk historia; Romerska riket; Kejsare; Tårar; Sorg; Gråt; känslohistoria; känslostudier; känslodisciplinering; Känslor; Latinsk litteratur; Grekisk litteratur; Antiken; Dygder och Laster; Dygder; Retorik; Historieskrivning; Talekonst; CIcero; Seneca; Tacitus; Livius; Antikens Grekland; Klassisk grekiska; Den romerska republiken; Kejsartid; Latinsk historieskrivning; Grekisk historieskrivning; Antikens historia; Antikens kultur och samhällsiv; Begravningar; Rome; Ancient Rome; Late Republican Rome; late Republic; Historiography; history of emotions; Tears; Weeping; Mourning; Virtues; Virtus; Pity; Clementia; Pietas; Oratory; Rhetoric; Cicero; Tacitus; Livy; The Roman Empire; The Roman Emperor; Latin historiography; Greek historiography; Grief; Ancient History; Classics; Ancient Greece; Funerals;

    Abstract : The thesis explores the meaning and function of tears in Roman political culture during the Republic and the Early Empire in various historical settings: mourning, the law court, and in different political contexts where power, authority, and subjection were expressed or exercised. This is carried through by reading representations of weeping in Greek and Latin literary works in different genres, written by different authors. READ MORE

  4. 2. Hellenistic Democracies : Freedom, Independence and Political Procedure in Some East Greek City-States

    Author : Susanne Carlsson; Kerstin Höghammar; Mats Lundström; Vincent Gabrielsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; democracy; demokratia; demos; exclusiveness; independence; autonomia; hegemonic power; hellenism; city-states; poleis; desicion-making process; foreign policy; decrees; epigraphy; Iasos; Kalymna; Kos; Miletos; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : Freedom from external control is one prerequisite for democracy. In the hellenistic period the Greek city-states are thought to have lost their independence due to the establishment of the hellenistic hegemonies, and thereby also lost their possibilities of democratic government and of pursuing a foreign policy of their own. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Prima Porta Garden Archaeological Project. Terra sigillata from the Villa of Livia, Rome. Consumption and discard in the early Principate

    Author : Allan Klynne; Philip Kenrick; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Villa of Livia; terra sigillata; Central Italian sigillata; fabrics; trade; consumption; discard; refuse; formation processes; chronology.; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : This study examines a corpus of Italian sigillata from the Villa of Livia outside Rome, and presents the excavations during which it was found. Most of the material stems from archaeologically secure contexts, a refuse tip and dump dating to the late Augustan and Neronian periods respectively. READ MORE

  6. 4. 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

  7. 5. Dazzling Dining : Banquets as an Expression of Imperial Legitimacy

    Author : Simon Malmberg; Averil Cameron; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Banquets; emperor; legitimation; rituals; ideology; propaganda; Domus Augustana; Great Palace; triclinium; Rome; Constantinople; virtues; Christianity; precedence; consensus; tradition; court; late antiquity.; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : This study examines how banquets hosted by the Roman emperor were vehicles of imperial propaganda and expressions of the ruler’s political legitimation. The focus will be on the banquets held in the palace of Domus Augustana in Rome and in the Great Palace in Constantinople during the period AD 330-580. READ MORE