Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire, and how self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation.

Dr. John Alexander Lobur is an assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi. His interests include Early Imperial History, Literature and Rhetoric, Roman Political and Social Ideology and Roman Historiography.