Leading Rome from a Distance, 300 BCE37 CE by Ralph Lange - 9781350325401

Leading Rome from a Distance, 300 BCE37 CEAsserting Autocracy through Absence\nAuthor(s): Ralph Lange\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350325401, 978-1350325401\nSynopsis\nRoman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. \n\nThrough the case studies of Caesars hegemony, Augustuss autocracy, and Tiberiuss 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.\n\n 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 abse.