Augustan Manipulation of Traditional Ideas of Provincial Governance
Augustan Manipulation of Traditional Ideas of Provincial Governance
This chapter examines Augustus’s role as a provincial commander and his contribution to the evolution of Roman provincial command. In particular, Augustus took advantage of changes in the fundamental, underlying concepts that had shaped and defined provincial command to give himself a radically new but traditional-sounding position as Rome’s main commander or imperator. The gradual evolution of Roman thinking about imperium and the provincia in the last two centuries of the republic gave Augustus different interpretations of each concept to choose from, and selecting those ideas that best served his purposes, he was able to establish what would become of the imperial monarchy.
Keywords: Augustus, imperator, Roman provincial command, imperium, provincia, imperial monarchy
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