Les nouveaux Sylla : violence de l’empereur et discours sur la mémoire des violences civiles sous Septime Sévère et Caracalla

This paper focuses on direct references made by Septimus Severus and Caracalla to Sylla and, more widely, to a memory of civil unrest in republican or imperial times. They are the cornerstone of a dialogue between emperor and senators in which the imperial institution appropriated the imagery of sev...

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