{"product_id":"the-rulers-house-9781421432892","title":"The Rulers House","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Romans used the world of the house to interpret and interrogate the role of the emperor.   The Julio-Claudian dynasty, beginning with the rise of Augustus in the late first century BCE and ending with the death of Nero in 68 CE, was the first ruling family of the Roman Empire. Elite Romans had always used domestic space to assert and promote their authority, but what was different about the emperor's house? In The Ruler's House, Harriet Fertik considers how the emperor's household and the space he called home shaped Roman conceptions of power and one-man rule. While previous studies of power and privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome have emphasized the emperor's intrusions into the private lives of his fellow elites, this book focuses on Roman ideas of the ruler's lack of privacy. Fertik argues that houses were spaces that Romans used to contest power and to confront the contingency of their own and others' claims to rule. Describing how the Julio-Claudian period provoked anxieties not on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFertik's study offers many such insights....[Her] writing is always clear, her literary analyses are always convincing....This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Julio-Claudian Rome.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGnomon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Playing House: New Families and New Rulers in Lucan's Bellum Civile \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Contest and Control in the Emperor's House  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Where to See the Emperor: Augustus and Nero in Rome \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Exposing the Ruler: Seneca on Visibility and Complicity \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Interdependence and Intimacy: Power at Home in Roman Pompeii   \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Bathing, Dining, and Digesting with the Ruler \u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408132546903,"sku":"9781421432892","price":42.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421432892.jpg?v=1730501703","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rulers-house-9781421432892","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}