Civil war and usurpation were endemic to the later Roman Empire, with no fewer than 37 men claiming imperial power between 284 and 395 AD. This volume constructs the first comprehensive history of civil war in this period through the ways in which successive dynasties manipulated history to legitimate themselves and to discredit their predecessors.
Civil war and usurpation were endemic to the later Roman Empire, with no fewer than 37 men claiming imperial power between 284 and 395 AD. This volume constructs the first comprehensive history of civil war in this period through the ways in which successive dynasties manipulated history to legitimate themselves and to discredit their predecessors.
Adrastos Omissi grew up in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. From 2005, he studied at St John's College, Oxford, where he received his BA, MSt, and DPhil. After working for some years in the charities and green energy sector, he returned to Oxford in 2014 to take up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Junior Research Fellowship in Classics and Ancient History at Oriel College. He then spent a brief period as Lecturer in Ancient History both at Oriel and at Jesus College, during which time he was awarded a prestigious Humanities Division Teaching Award, before moving to the University of Glasgow in September 2017, where he is currently Lecturer in Latin Literature. He has authored a number of articles, in both specialist and non-specialist publications, on Roman history, linguistics, and Renaissance art.
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* Frontmatter * List of Figures * List of Abbreviations * Typographical Note * PART I * I: Usurpation, Legitimacy, and the Roman Empire * I.1: Why usurpation?: the problem of the imperial succession * I.2: 'This litany of manifest usurpers and rebellious generals': why had the imperial succession become so unstable by the third century? * I.3: 'The difference between a tyrant and a king is one of deeds, not of name': how was usurpation understood in the late Roman Empire? * I.4: 'Let these things go unspoken': usurpation and modern research * II: Usurpation, Legitimacy, and Panegyric * II.1: Known unknowns, and unknown unknowns: how to use panegyric as a source * II.2: 'In which I would tell many lies': who dictated the content of panegyric? * II.3: 'And would be viewed with favour by those who knew them to be such': panegyric, audience, and influence * II.4: Propaganda and power * PART II * III: A House Divided Against Itself * IV: 'At last Roman, at last restored to the true light of Empire': Dyarchy, Tetrarchy, and the Fall of the British Empire of Carausius * IV.1: Birthing the late Roman state: dyarchs, tetrarchs, and a new language of power * IV.2: Emperors and bandits: the British Empire under Carausius and Allectus * V: Tyranny and Betrayal: Constantine, Maximian, Maxentius, and Licinius * V.1: Constantine's usurpation: Constantine, Galerius, and Maximian * V.2: The tyrannus: Maxentius and the rewards of civil war * V.3: Notable by his absence: Licinius and the rise of the Constantinian dynasty * VI: Tyranny and Blood: Constantius, Constans, Magnentius, and Vetranio * VI.1: Smiling for the cameras: the sons of Constantine, 337-50 * VI.2: The son of the father: Constantius the tyrant-slayer * VII: Usurper, Propaganda, History: The Emperor Julian * VII.1: The voice of a usurper: Julian's rise to power * VII.2: Bleaching the stains: Julian's sole rule * VIII: Panegyric and Apology: The Accession of Jovian and the Usurpation of Procopius * VIII.1: The need for victory: Jovian and the demands of imperial rhetoric * VIII.2: The enemy inside: Valentinian, Valens, and Procopius * VIII.3: 'He who sought rule for himself behind the cloak of a little boy': the usurpation of Valentinian II * IX: Dismembering the House of Valentinian: The Usurpation of Theodosius and the War with Magnus Maximus * IX.1: 'And nobly he made the vote his own': the usurpation of Theodosius * IX.2: Divided loyalties: the usurpation of Magnus Maximus * X: Crisis and Transformation: Imperial Power in the Fifth Century * XI: Conclusion: Those Made Tyrants by the Victory of Others * Appendix I: The Panegyrics * Appendix II: Quantifying Usurpation: Notes to Accompany Figure I.2 * Endmatter * Bibliography * Index
* Frontmatter * List of Figures * List of Abbreviations * Typographical Note * PART I * I: Usurpation, Legitimacy, and the Roman Empire * I.1: Why usurpation?: the problem of the imperial succession * I.2: 'This litany of manifest usurpers and rebellious generals': why had the imperial succession become so unstable by the third century? * I.3: 'The difference between a tyrant and a king is one of deeds, not of name': how was usurpation understood in the late Roman Empire? * I.4: 'Let these things go unspoken': usurpation and modern research * II: Usurpation, Legitimacy, and Panegyric * II.1: Known unknowns, and unknown unknowns: how to use panegyric as a source * II.2: 'In which I would tell many lies': who dictated the content of panegyric? * II.3: 'And would be viewed with favour by those who knew them to be such': panegyric, audience, and influence * II.4: Propaganda and power * PART II * III: A House Divided Against Itself * IV: 'At last Roman, at last restored to the true light of Empire': Dyarchy, Tetrarchy, and the Fall of the British Empire of Carausius * IV.1: Birthing the late Roman state: dyarchs, tetrarchs, and a new language of power * IV.2: Emperors and bandits: the British Empire under Carausius and Allectus * V: Tyranny and Betrayal: Constantine, Maximian, Maxentius, and Licinius * V.1: Constantine's usurpation: Constantine, Galerius, and Maximian * V.2: The tyrannus: Maxentius and the rewards of civil war * V.3: Notable by his absence: Licinius and the rise of the Constantinian dynasty * VI: Tyranny and Blood: Constantius, Constans, Magnentius, and Vetranio * VI.1: Smiling for the cameras: the sons of Constantine, 337-50 * VI.2: The son of the father: Constantius the tyrant-slayer * VII: Usurper, Propaganda, History: The Emperor Julian * VII.1: The voice of a usurper: Julian's rise to power * VII.2: Bleaching the stains: Julian's sole rule * VIII: Panegyric and Apology: The Accession of Jovian and the Usurpation of Procopius * VIII.1: The need for victory: Jovian and the demands of imperial rhetoric * VIII.2: The enemy inside: Valentinian, Valens, and Procopius * VIII.3: 'He who sought rule for himself behind the cloak of a little boy': the usurpation of Valentinian II * IX: Dismembering the House of Valentinian: The Usurpation of Theodosius and the War with Magnus Maximus * IX.1: 'And nobly he made the vote his own': the usurpation of Theodosius * IX.2: Divided loyalties: the usurpation of Magnus Maximus * X: Crisis and Transformation: Imperial Power in the Fifth Century * XI: Conclusion: Those Made Tyrants by the Victory of Others * Appendix I: The Panegyrics * Appendix II: Quantifying Usurpation: Notes to Accompany Figure I.2 * Endmatter * Bibliography * Index
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