Table of Contents

A Note on Transliteration
Introduction. Roman History After the Fall of Rome
Chapter 1. New Romans in the Age of Anastasius
Chapter 2. Mythistory and Cultural Identity in New Rome
Chapter 3. Administrative Reform and Republican History
Chapter 4. The Abolition of the Consulship
Chapter 5. The Fall of Rome in the Age of Justinian
Chapter 6. Apostolic History and the Church of (New) Rome
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Selected Chronology of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD
Appendix 2. Ordinations of the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Index locorum
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

In The Politics of Roman Memory, Marion Kruse explores the process by which the emperors, historians, jurists, antiquarians, and poets of the eastern Roman Empire employed both history and mythologized versions of the same to come to terms with the political realities of the late fifth and sixth centuries.

About the Author

Marion Kruse teaches classics at the University of Cincinnati.

Reviews

"The Politics of Roman Memory is an exciting addition to the scholarship about the intellectual and literary directions of both Justinian's Constantinople and the wider sixth-century Mediterranean world."
*Edward Watts, University of California, San Diego*

"Highlighting an often overlooked group of authors and a time period often bypassed by memory studies, Marion Kruse persuasively articulates the ongoing but changing significance of the city of Rome for literate elites of early- to mid-sixth century Constantinople."
*Jacob Latham, University of Tennessee, Knoxville*