Военная история / Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine

Название: Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine
Автор: Michael Koortbojian
Издательство: Princeton University Press 2020
Страниц: 251
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 40 MB

The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city?a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. In this book, Michael Koortbojian explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion and law from those of war and conquest, and to establish and disseminate so many fundamental Roman institutions across three centuries of imperial rule.