{"product_id":"leading-rome-from-a-distance-ralph-lange-9781350325401","title":"Leading Rome from a Distance, 300 BCE-37 CE: Asserting Autocracy through Absence","description":"\u003cb\u003eRoman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the case studies of Caesar's hegemony, Augustus's autocracy, and Tiberius's reign, this book examines how these figures' experiences and manipulations of absence established a multipolar focus of political life centred less on the city of Rome, and more on the idea of a single leader.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Roman expansion over Italy and the Mediterranean put the political system under considerable stress, and eventually resulted in a dispersal of leadership and a decentralization of power. Absent generals rivalled their peers in Rome for influence and threatened to surpass them from the provinces. Roman leaders, from Sulla to Tiberius, used absence as a mechanism to act autonomously, but it came at the cost of losing influence and control at the centre. In order to hold influence while being split off from the decision-making powers of the geographical nucleus that was Rome, communication channels to mitigate necessary absences were developed during this period, such as travel, intermediate meetings, letters (propaganda writings) and a complex network of mediators, ultimately forming the circle from which the imperial court emerged. Absent leadership, as it developed throughout the Late Republic, a hitherto neglected issue, eventually became a valuable asset in the institutionalising process of the autocracy of Caesar, Augustus, and Tiberius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Lange\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350325406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350325401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Ralph Lange","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46384062660863,"sku":"9781350325401","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e7bd320-8877-4a4c-a685-b8b6e8277e12.jpg?v=1733282573","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leading-rome-from-a-distance-ralph-lange-9781350325401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}