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Crossing the Pomerium - The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine (Hardcover)
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Crossing the Pomerium - The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine (Hardcover)
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A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and
military life in ancient Rome 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. Crossing the Pomerium probes such topics as the
appearance in the city of Romans in armor, whether in
representation or in life, the role of religious rites on the
battlefield, and the military image of Constantine on the arch
built in his name. Throughout, the book reveals how, in these
instances and others, the ancient ideology of crossing the pomerium
reflects the efforts of Romans not only to live up to the ideals
they had inherited, but also to reconceive their past and to
validate contemporary practices during a time when Rome enjoyed
growing dominance in the Mediterranean world. A masterly
reassessment of the evolution of ancient Rome and its customs,
Crossing the Pomerium explores a problem faced by generations of
Romans-how to leave and return to hallowed city ground in the
course of building an empire.
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