Table of Contents

Contents: I. PARTICULAR MEDIA ALFOLDY, G.: Die Reprasentation der kaiserlichen Macht in den Inschriften Roms und des Imperium Romanum. BLOIS, L. DE: The Perception of Roman Imperial Authority in Herodian's Work. BRUUN, CH.: Roman Emperors in Popular Jargon: Searching for Contemporary Nicknames. HAENSCH, R.: Romische Amtsinhaber als Vorbild fur die Bischofe des vierten Jahrhunderts. HEKSTER, O.: Coins and Messages. Audience Targeting on Coins of Different Denominations? HESBERG, H. VON: Romisches Ornament als Sprache. Die sanfte Gegenwart der Macht. HOOFF, A. VAN: The Imperial Art of Dying. LOPEZ-SANCHEZ, F.: Left and Right in Roman Coins of the 4th and 5th Centuries A.D. NEIRA FALEIRO, C.: La plenitudo potestatis e la veneratio imperatoris come principio dogmatico della politica della tarda antichita; un esempio chiaro: la Notitia Dignitatum. RICHARDSON, J.: Imperium Romanum between Republic and Empire. ZWALVE, W.: Valerius Patruinus' case. Contracting in the name of the emperor. II. ROME AND THE PROVINCES BOTTERI, P.: Ancyra, Antiochia e Apollonia. La rappresentazione delle Res Gestae Divi Augusti. CHANIOTIS, A.: The Perception of Imperial Power in Aphrodisias: The Epigraphic Evidence. ECK, W.: Nahe und Ferne kaiserlicher Macht: das Beispiel Koln. JONG, J. DE: Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power in Greek Papyrus Texts from A.D. 238. KLEIJN, G. DE: The Emperor and Public Works in the City of Rome. KRIECKHAUS, A.: Im Schatten des Kaisers: Uberlegungen zu: L. Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus und seiner Beziehung zu Hadrian. PANCIERA, S.: Umano, sovrumano o divino? Le divinita augustee e l' imperatore a Roma. SLOOTJES, D.: Between Criticism and Praise: Provincial Image of the Governor in the Later Roman Empire. STOLTE, B.: Jurisdiction and Representation of Power, or, the Emperor on Circuit. WALLACE-HADRILL, A.: Representations of Imperial Power in Town-planning: The Case of Rome. III. INDIVIDUAL EMPERORS BIRLEY, A.: Hadrian's Travels. COULSTON, J.: Overcoming the Barbarian: Depictions of Rome's Enemies in Trajanic Monumental Art. HAEGEMANS, K.: Representation and Perception of Imperial Power in A.D. 238. The Numismatic Evidence. MOLS, S.: The Cult of Roma Aeterna in Hadrian's Politics. MOORMANN, E.: Some Observations on Nero and the City of Rome. PERRIN, Y.: Aux marches du palais: les acces au Palatium de 54 a 70. RICH, J.: Augustus, War and Peace. SINGOR, H.: The Labarum, Shield Blazons, and Constantine's caeleste signum. VOUT, C.: A Revision of Hadrian's Portraiture.

About the Author

Lukas de Blois is Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. He has published books and articles on the history of the Roman Empire in the third century A.D., the history of the Late Roman Republic, ancient historiography (Sallust, Tacitus, Cassius Dio), Plutarch's biographies, and Greek Sicily in the fourth century B.C. He has also published a manual (L. de Blois & R.J. van der Spek, Introduction to the Ancient World, London/ New York 1997).