Prologue
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
1: Introduction
Part 1: Family Ties
2: Running in the Family
3: Your Mother's Son
4: We Go Way Back
Part 2: Claiming Kinship
5: Some Have Ancestors Thrust Upon Them
6: Sons of Gods and Heroes
7: The Tetrarchs: Divine Brothers and Fictive Fathers
Conclusions: Emperors and Ancestral Representations
List of Emperors
Stemmata
Bibliography
Index locorum
General Index
Olivier Hekster is Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Hekster's study is filled with surprising interpretations,
important remarks, and inspiring conclusions, but its greatest
merit lies in looking at the image of emperors and their
predecessors with the long-term perspective in mind.
*Lechosław Olszewski, EOS: Commentarii Societatis Philologae
Polonorum *
Olivier Heksters Emperors and Ancestors is an important
contribution to the study of the images of Roman emperors and the
ideology of imperial rule... The book invites further work on other
aspects of imperial ideology, such as military imagery, to see if
the same patterns can be found. It deserves serious consideration
by all scholars of the Roman Empire.
*Caillan Davenport (The University of Queensland), The Journal of
Roman Studies Vol.107*
Hekster ... ably addresses the roles ancestral lineage played in
legitimizing power ... Highly recommended.
*B. A. Ault, CHOICE*
The book is also splendidly illustrated. More than a hundred
black-and-white photographs enable readers to examine with their
own eyes many of the sources on which Hekster's argument is based
... This is an extremely useful book.
*John Weisweiler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
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