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1.2.3.4.Appendix 1.Appendix 2.Appendix 3.Changing Emperorship: Setting the Scene --Factors Influencing Emperorship between AD 193 and 284 --Consequences for the Position of the Emperor --The Impact of Crises on the Position of the Senatorial Elite --Establishing the Senatorial Elite in theThird Century --Analyzing the Selected Families --Defining a Nucleus within the Senatorial Elite --Excursus. Prosopography of the Senatorial Elite Families --Praetorian Prefects and Other High-ranking Equestrians --The Increasing Responsibilities of High Equestrians in Imperial Administration --The Status of High-ranking Equestrians in the Third Century --The praefecti praetorio: A Case Study --High-ranking Military Officers: Septimius Severus versus Gallienus --Septimius Severus and HisMilitary Officers --Gallienus andHisMilitary Officers --Conclusion --List of Emperors and Usurpers (AD 193 and 284) --Lists ofMen Holding Senatorial Elite Positions between AD 193 and 284 --List of Praefecti Praetorio between AD 193 and 284 --Bibliography --General Index --Index of Ancient Persons.
This book deals with changing power and status relations between the highest ranking representatives of Roman imperial power at the central level, in a period when the Empire came under tremendous pressure, AD 193-284. Based on epigraphic, literary and legal materials, the author deals with issues such as the third-century development of emperorship, the shift in power of the senatorial elite and the developing position of senior military officers and other high equestrians. By analyzing the various senior power-holders involved in Roman imperial administration by social rank, this book presents new insights into the diachronic development of imperial administration, appointment policies and socio-political hierarchies between the second and fourth centuries AD