Los viros militares en época Antonina. Una mirada general a la formación militar en el siglo II by Andrés Sáez Geoffroy

“…This article analyzes the military training of Roman emperors and senators in the 2nd century. The objective is to explore the historiographical debate that exists to this day and look for an explanatory model of how military learning existed in the Nobilitas from historical evidence on three levels: imperial biographies, epigraphy and historical narrative. …”
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Tradición y novedad en las leyes contra la magia y los paganos de los emperadores cristianos by Manuel Salinas de Frías

“… The legislation against magic practices and paganism of the Christian emperors presents certain aspects of continuity and at the same time a rupture respecting what was the usual practice of the magistrates and Roman emperors in regard to the religio and perstitio. …”
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Das eManual Alte Geschichte – ein digitales Lernszenario der Alten Geschichte by Jan Seehusen

“…Users can learn about Ancient history by using podcasts, ancient sources in translation (and with comments), secondary literature, and other material (such as lists of Roman emperors). Under the direction of Werner Riess, a team of seven contributors created the contents and layout of the blog from November 2015 until June 2017. …”
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Historia Augusta authorship: an approach based on Measurements of Complex Networks by Armando Martins, Clara Grácio, Cláudia Teixeira, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, Juan Luís Garcia Zapata, Lígia Ferreira

“…The Latin texts object of this study are excerpts from Historia Augusta, a collection of biographies of Roman emperors extending from Hadrian, who started to reign in 117 CE, to Carus and his sons Numerian and Carinus, that is, to the years up 284–285 CE. …”
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The "Pharsalia" of Lucan in the thought of Saint Augustine by Pierre Sarr

“…When Alaric invaded Rome, this event was considered as a considerable disillusion for the Romans. Emperors were thus considered as responsible for this catastrophy, as they had abandoned the antic religion for Christianism. …”
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Tacitus and Stoicism. On libertas or between “unequivocal rebelliousness” and “shameful servility” by Salvador Mas

“…This article aims to characterise the vital and intellectual attitude hold by Tacitus under the rule of roman emperors. According to Tacitus’ view, in this context it is convenient to develop an art of acting which allows individuals both to survive, to act with some personal dignity and to bear a “bad conscience” produced by such external social and political conditions. …”
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Between sacrilegium and ἀνδρομανία. Justinian’s Law in the Testimonies of Byzantine Historians by Ewa Gajda

“…Republican leges, and later imperial leges, concerned the problems connected with these phenomena. The Christian Roman emperors and Byzantine emperors paid particular attention to those problems. …”
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Imprisonment of Tax Non-Payers – an Abuse of Power or a Measure of Legal Discipline? by Przemysław Kubiak

“…Legal texts give some reflections to the contrary– Roman emperors prohibited the use of imprisonment in non-criminal matters. …”
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Prolegomena to the Christian Images Not Made by Human Hands by Matej Gogola

“…The imagines imperiales, i.e. effigies of Roman emperors, constituted a significant factor in the process leading to the later veneration of images not made by human hands. …”
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HADRIAN AND THE LIMITS TO POWER by Olivier Hekster

“…Roman emperors were influenced by precedent and by the expectations of various groups in the Roman Empire that followed from precedent. …”
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Archiater Caesarius: Johannes Crato as Philip Sidney’s Forgotten Mentor? by Martina Kastnerová

“…This paper will examine – using the example of the German humanist Johannes Crato von Krafftheim (1519–1585), personal physician to three Holy Roman Emperors, as a case study – how Sidney might have been inspired by the unique continental area of irenicism and the flourishing of new ways of understanding Man and Nature by means of medicine and botany. …”
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Hunc deum quis credet? Some Considerations on the Belief in the Divinity of Emperors by Carmen Alarcón Hernández, Fernando Lozano Gómez

“… <p> There are abundant examples of negative assessments of cultic honors to Roman emperors by nineteenth- and twentieth-century researchers. …”
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Genesis and Collapse of a Network: The Rise and Fall of Lucius Aelius Seianus by Elena Köstner

“…For Roman emperors, loyal advisors in their immediate vicinity were an absolute necessity to ensure good governance. …”
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Galen by Jerzy Supady

“…He was born in Pergamon in c. 131 AD, but soon upon completion of his medical studies he went to become physician-in-ordinary to the Roman Emperors. Being devoted to his studies, he made a lot of discoveries in the field of anatomy and physiology. …”
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Minor Hygieia. Iconographic Aspects of the Goddess in the Numismatic and Glyptic by Lorenzo Fabbri

“…Numismatic often allows to attest the presence of sanctuaries specifically dedicated to Hygieia in the different poleis and it shows how the Roman emperors and empresses, as long as their public life was concerned, frequently associated their own image with that of the goddess according to specific motivations, not least political ones. …”
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Composição em contraponto. Notas sobre a relação entre Aby Warburg e Edgar Wind em seus estudos sobre o Renascimento by Rhuan Fernandes Gomes

“…Em um texto de 1986 intitulado “How Roman Emperors Became Gods”, Arnaldo Momigliano evocou a memória de Gertrude Bing, que costumava compartilhar com entusiasmo um episódio da vida de Aby Warburg.Onze de Fevereiro de 1929, Bing e Warburg estavam em Roma quando Mussolini e o Papa proclamaram a reconciliação entre a Itália e a Igreja Católica por meio da Concordata quetransformou Mussolini no “homem da providência”, epíteto que Pio II lhe teria atribuído na ocasião. …”
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Relationes 10-12 of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus as an Elogium to Commemorate Vettius Agorius Praetextatus by Anna Mleczek

“…These three relationes were written and sent by Symmachus to Roman emperors to inform them of the death of V.A. Praetextatus, who was a famous and influential Roman dignitary as well as Symmachus’ close friend. …”
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Authentic interpretation by Endicott, T

“…The idea that authentic interpretation is interpretation by the lawmaker united the Roman emperors Constantine and Justinian with Bracton, Aquinas, King James I of England, Hobbes, and Bentham. …”

FAMILY AND PRO-FAMILY POLITICS IN ANCIENT ROME by Marlena Mazur

“…Family – related politics applied by Roman emperors, marital law, paternal authority and protective law will be presented. …”
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Supply of the Roman legionaries in the II–III century AD at Novae (Moesia Inferior) and Chersonesos in Taurica by Yelena Yur'yevna Klenina

“…To maintain efficiency of the army and loyalty to authorities, the Roman emperors took a special interest in needs of the military. …”
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