Construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium : the rhetoric of empire, The

Ch. 1. Republican Rome's Rhetorical Pattern of Political Authority.
Virtual Reality: To Win Fame and Practice Virtue.
Creation of a Public Image: Rome's Virtuous Man.
Virtue and Remembrance: The Tomb of the Scipiones.
Variations on the Theme: Cicero's Virtuous Roman.
Pater Patriae: Symbol of Authority and Embodiment of Tradition.
Virtuous Father: Gaius Julius Caesar.
Ch. 2. Empire of Words and Men.
Augustus's Achievements: A Memory Shaped.
Horace's Poem 3.2: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Nero: What an Artist Dies with Me!.
Vespasian: The Upstart from Reate.
Trajan: Jupiter on Earth.
Maximus: Hollywood's Ideal Roman.
Ch. 3. Appropriation of a Pattern Mending the Known World Order.
New World Order.
Constantine, Very Wisely, Seldom Said "No".
Pagan's Last Stand.
Augustine: The Christian Cicero.
Claudian's On the Fourth Consulate of Honorius.
Ch. 4. Power of Rhetoric.
Last Roman Emperor: Justinian.
First Byzantine Emperor: Heraclius.
View to the West: Charlemagne.
Back to the East: A Theocratic State?
Examines how rhetoric shaped the ancients' reality and played a part in the upkeep of their political structures.