Book review: Kinship and Coins. Ancestors and Family on Roman Imperial Coinage under the Principate, written by Claes, L.

Claes, L.M.G.F.E.

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“…The legend of coins emphasised the name 'Nerva' but the actual likeness of the previous ruler was only shown on only one, very rare, type of aureus, which shows Nerva giving the globe to Trajan 12 . All previous rulers who succeeded (adoptive) fathers had depicted their predecessor -or referred explicitly to him through imagery -much more often (Claes, 2013;Hekster, in press). It seems that those creating the emperor's images were not entirely certain on how to deal with the unprecedented context of Trajan's accession.…”

Section: Trajan At Rome: the Son Of Two Fathersmentioning

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Son of two fathers? Trajan and the adoption of emperorship in the Roman Empire

Hekster

2014

The History of the Family

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Roman imperial succession was in practice a dynastic system. Since the Roman Empire had a high rate of child-mortality, many of the rulers did not have surviving biological sons. This made adoption a standard method of appointing an heir. There was, however, a clear preference for consanguineals when adopting someone into the imperial family. The only exception to this practice of adopting a family member as imperial successor was the adoption by the emperor Nerva (96 -98) of Trajan (98 -117). This article analyses some of the possible motives for this break with precedent, and the consequences for the ways in which imperial ancestry was represented. There was a noticeable emphasis on Trajan's biological father, the Elder Trajan, towards the end of the emperor's reign, but not similarly pronounced in all ancient 'media'. Attention to the Elder Trajan was limited to Rome, where the new form of imperial adoption seems to have led to discussions about the relative merits of succession by adoption or through bloodline. These discussions are not traceable to the provinces, where images of imperial ancestry stuck to precedent. The mixed messages from the centre were apparently not sufficient to change local expectations.

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Section: Trajan At Rome: the Son Of Two Fathersmentioning

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Son of two fathers? Trajan and the adoption of emperorship in the Roman Empire

Hekster

2014

The History of the Family

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Coinage in the Roman Provinces: the RPC and CHRE projects

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Manders²

2022

J. Rom. Stud.

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Roman coinage forms an astoundingly rich body of material. That applies to coins struck by the centre as much as so-called provincial coinage. The latter can be roughly categorised as 1) coins struck by cities in the east of the Roman Empire, and for the Julio-Claudian period also in the west (in the western provinces, cities stopped issuing coins around the end of Claudius’ reign); 2) coinages issued in the name of federations of cities (koina) or coins celebrating alliances between cities (so-called homonoia-coins); 3) coins struck by ‘friendly kings’; and 4) so-called ‘provincial issues’ — mainly drachms, didrachms and tetradrachms, but also bronzes — that were mostly struck by important mints such as Alexandria, Antioch and Caesarea (in Cappadocia), probably under the supervision of Roman magistrates, to circulate in specific provinces.1

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Cesarze rzymscy i ich antenaci – numizmatyczna saga Olivier Hekster, Emperors and Ancestors. Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition, Oxford 2015

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2020

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Cesarze rzymscy i ich antenaci-numizmatyczna saga Oliviera Hekstera Emperors and ancestors. Roman rulers and the constraints of tradition, Oxford 2015, ss. 395 Roman emperors and their ancestors-a numismatic saga Olivier Hekster, Emperors and ancestors. Roman rulers and the constraints of tradition, Oxford 2015, p. 395 Streszczenie: Artykuł jest komentarzem do studium Oliviera Hekstera Emperors and ancestors. Roman rulers and the constraints of tradition (2015), kóre jest poświęcone aspektom polityki sukcesyjnej i ideologii dynastycznej cesarzy rzymskich. Wychodząc od sformułowania autora, że numizmaty stanowią jedno z ważniejszych źródeł do studiowania tych zagadnień, w artykule krótko odniesiono się do trzech kwestii: tradycji ikonograficznej w mennictwie i tworzenia nowych wyobrażeń, zmienności chronologicznej

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Book review: Kinship and Coins. Ancestors and Family on Roman Imperial Coinage under the Principate, written by Claes, L.

Cited by 4 publications

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Son of two fathers? Trajan and the adoption of emperorship in the Roman Empire

Son of two fathers? Trajan and the adoption of emperorship in the Roman Empire

Coinage in the Roman Provinces: the RPC and CHRE projects

Cesarze rzymscy i ich antenaci – numizmatyczna saga Olivier Hekster, Emperors and Ancestors. Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition, Oxford 2015

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