Table of Contents

Prologue
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
1: Introduction
Part 1: Family Ties
2: Running in the Family
3: Your Mother's Son
4: We Go Way Back
Part 2: Claiming Kinship
5: Some Have Ancestors Thrust Upon Them
6: Sons of Gods and Heroes
7: The Tetrarchs: Divine Brothers and Fictive Fathers
Conclusions: Emperors and Ancestral Representations
List of Emperors
Stemmata
Bibliography
Index locorum
General Index

About the Author

Olivier Hekster is Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Reviews

Hekster's study is filled with surprising interpretations, important remarks, and inspiring conclusions, but its greatest merit lies in looking at the image of emperors and their predecessors with the long-term perspective in mind.
*Lechosław Olszewski, EOS: Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum *

Olivier Heksters Emperors and Ancestors is an important contribution to the study of the images of Roman emperors and the ideology of imperial rule... The book invites further work on other aspects of imperial ideology, such as military imagery, to see if the same patterns can be found. It deserves serious consideration by all scholars of the Roman Empire.
*Caillan Davenport (The University of Queensland), The Journal of Roman Studies Vol.107*

Hekster ... ably addresses the roles ancestral lineage played in legitimizing power ... Highly recommended.
*B. A. Ault, CHOICE*

The book is also splendidly illustrated. More than a hundred black-and-white photographs enable readers to examine with their own eyes many of the sources on which Hekster's argument is based ... This is an extremely useful book.
*John Weisweiler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*