Célébrer la paix à Rome et dans les provinces (Ier-IVe siècles apr. J.-C.) : monuments et titulatures impériales

Abstract

This article aims to examinate the different manners of celebrating peace in the Roman Empire, and especially the place occupied by peace in the construction of the emperor’s image. What interests us here is not so much the celebration of peace itself but the celebration of the emperor as the “creator” of peace. The appearance of this theme in both “official” and “semi-official” epigraphy should therefore be scrutinized at the local level, by being attentive to variations in vocabulary, synchrony or, on the contrary, to the discrepancy with the presence of this theme in other types of sources (mainly literary and numismatic).

Keywords

• peace
• inscriptions
• imperial titulature
• monumental arches
• trophies
• milestones