IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1009: Political Authority in Late Antiquity, I: Imperial and Military Authority
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Postgraduate & Early-Career Late Antiquity Network |
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| Organiser: | Nicola Ernst, School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland |
| Moderator/Chair: | Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 1009-a | Slaying His Boar: Nicomedia and the Construction of Tetrarchic Legitimacy (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Military History |
| Paper 1009-b | A Eunuch as a Helmsman, Impossible! A Eunuch as a Statesman, Bitter Reality?: Debating Authority through Comparison in Claudian (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin, Maritime and Naval Studies, Political Thought |
| Paper 1009-c | 'Holding the wolf by its ears': Challenging the Authority of the Army in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Law, Military History, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session focuses on perhaps the most immediately recognisable kind of authority in the late antique world, that of the emperor and his armies. The first paper (Waldron) discusses how Diocletian and his tetrarchy used various forms of military acclamatio to solidify their imperial authority. The second (Kohlhofer) considers the diatribe against the authority of the eunuch Eutropius as it is found in Claudian's invective. The final paper (Gambold) explores the relationship between imperial and martial authority and how the emperor maintained his own authority over that of the military elite. |