Abstract
This essay focuses on Germanicus’ performance of sovereign power in Tacitus’ Annales 1-2. That power is seen in the differentiation of citizen from non-citizen and Roman territory from non-Roman territory. Roman violence in Germany contrasts with Germanicus in the East. There he recognised a shared history and community. Sovereign power required a recognition of the sovereign by the citizen and of the citizen by the sovereign. An individual’s membership and a territory’s place within the Roman Empire depended not on innate characteristics but political negotiation. Ancient political geographies gave primacy to the political rather than the territorial in determining citizenship.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 413-440 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Lexis |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Dec 2021 |
Keywords
- Tacitus
- Sovereignty
- Germanicus