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  • - Studien Zur Institutionalisierung Des Roemischen Kaiserhofes in Der Zeit Von Augustus Bis Commodus (31 V. Chr.-192 N. Chr.)
    by Aloys Winterling
    £104.49

    Der Hof der römischen Kaiser von Augustus bis Commodus ist in systematischen Zusammenhängen zuletzt in den großen staatsrechtlichen und kulturgeschichtlichen Handbüchern des 19. Jahrhunderts behandelt worden, seitdem aber weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die forschungsgeschichtlichen Hintergründe dieser Sachlage und rekonstruiert, wie das "Haus" der römischen Kaiser seit der frühen Kaiserzeit eine Transformation erfuhr, die es zu einer neuartigen, von aristokratischen "Häusern" in grundlegenden Hinsichten unterschiedenen und schon von Zeitgenossen als "Hof" (aula) bezeichneten politisch-sozialen Größe machte. Untersucht werden die Entstehung der Paläste auf dem Palatin, die dort belegte materielle Kultur, die Ausdifferenzierung einer neuartigen höfischen Organisation und die soziale Interaktion des Kaisers mit seiner Umgebung.

  • - A Biography
    by Aloys Winterling
    £17.99 - 29.49

    The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him, turned part of his palace into a brothel, and committed incest with his sisters. He wanted to make his horse a consul. Torture and executions were the order of the day. Both modern and ancient interpretations have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane. But was he? This biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor. In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling opens a new perspective on the man and his times. Basing Caligula on a thorough new assessment of the ancient sources, he sets the emperor's story into the context of the political system and the changing relations between the senate and the emperor during Caligula's time and finds a new rationality explaining his notorious brutality.

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