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Author Fertik, Harriet, 1987- author.

Title The ruler's house : contesting power and privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome / Harriet Fertik
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Contents Playing house : new families and new rulers in Lucan's Bellum Civile -- Contest and control in the emperor's house -- Where to see the emperor: Augustus and Nero in Rome -- Exposing the ruler : Seneca on visibility and complicity -- Interdependence and intimacy : power at home in Roman Pompeii -- Bathing, dining, and digesting with the ruler -- Conclusion : Privacy and security in Roman political thought
Summary "The Julio-Claudian dynasty, lasting from 27 BC to AD 68, was the first Roman imperial dynasty. In The Ruler's House, Fertik considers the physical space the emperor called home and the effect it had upon his role as the leader of the Roman state. Fertik argues that the ruler's lack of privacy and his inability to act without public consequence was a central problem early in Roman reflections on monocracy."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Text in English, with some text in Latin
Print version record
Subject Emperors -- Dwellings -- Rome
Privacy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
Emperors -- Rome -- Social life and customs
Politics and culture -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Emperors -- Dwellings
Politics and culture
Politics and government
Privacy
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115126
Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-284 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115182
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421432908
1421432900
Other Titles Contesting power and privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome