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The Roman Principate: an Empire Built on Military Authority

by Alban Pope
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235815551
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Colloquium Verlag
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  • Pages: 150
  • Original Price: GBP 11.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 182 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Rome

The Roman Principate has long occupied an ambiguous space in the history of political systems, suspended between the language of republican continuity and the reality of monarchical power. From Augustus onward, emperors insisted that they were not kings, that the res publica had been restored, and that the constitutional order of the Republic endured. Yet the political stability of the early empire rested not on senatorial consensus or civic tradition but on the emperor's command of the army. This tension-between the fa�ade of republican legality and the substance of military authority-defines the Principate as one of the most sophisticated and enduring experiments in political camouflage ever attempted. To understand the Principate is to understand how a state could be built on the power of the sword while speaking the language of ancestral liberty.

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