The transformation of the saeculum and its rhetoric in the construction and rejection of roman imperial power
The Roman conception of the saeculum (“age” or “generation”) became charged with political significance from the Late Republic onward. The saeculum was linked with imperial authority during the reign of Augustus with his foundation of the ludi saeculares (“Saecular Games”). Augustus recalculated the...
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De Gruyter
2022
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