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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Communis Patria | |
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| Ancient and Modern Contexts | |
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| Ideology in the Roman Empire | |
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| The Roman Achievement in Ancient Thought | |
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| Consensus and Communication | |
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| The Communicative Actions of the Roman Government | |
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| Habermas and Rome | |
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| Notarized Documents and Local Archives | |
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| Local Archives and Local History | |
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| New Legislation and Individual Liability | |
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| To Read or to Hear the Law | |
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| The Distribution and Reception of Official Documents | |
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| Finding History in the Filing Cabinet | |
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| Consensus in Theory and Practice | |
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| Roman Emperors and Public Opinion | |
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| Augustus as Augustan Author | |
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| The Senate as Socius Laborum | |
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| The Imposing Fa�ade of Senatorial Support | |
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| Local Reactions to Events in the Life of the Emperor | |
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| The Creation of Consensus | |
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| Aurum Coronarium | |
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| The Slow Journey of Eutherius | |
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| Acting Out Consensus | |
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| Images of Emperor and Empire | |
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| Decius and the Divi | |
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| Symbolic Forms in Roman Life | |
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| Who Was Thought to Control the Mints? | |
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| The Distribution of Imperial Portraits | |
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| The Power of Imperial Portraits | |
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| Imperial Portraits and the Failure of Charisma | |
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| The Arrival of Roman Portraits in a Christian Empire | |
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| The Art of Victory | |
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| Signa of Rome, Signa of Power | |
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| Concordia in Church and State | |
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| From Imperium to Patria | |
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| Orbis Terrarum and Orbis Romanus | |
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| Augustus and Victory | |
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| Triumphator Perpetuus | |
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| Ex Sanguine Romano Triumphator | |
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| The Reception of Imperial Artwork in the Provinces | |
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| How to Appeal to a Province | |
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| The Geography of the Roman Empire | |
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| Hadrian and the Limits of Empire | |
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| The King Is a Body Politick … for that a Body Politique Never Dieth | |
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| How Did One Join the Roman Community? | |
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| The Ritual Life of the Roman Citizen | |
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| The Emperor and His Subordinates | |
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| The Faith of Fifty Million People | |
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| The Discovery of Roman Religion | |
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| The Father of the Human Race | |
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| Conclusion: Singulare et Unicum Imperium | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| General Index | |
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| Index Locorum | |