Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition by Olivier Hekster

Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition

Olivier Hekster

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Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in th...

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