Bishops and the death of the augusti: the art of interpretation of a signifier fact of the empires’ life

Abstract

The bishops, as heirs of legal and political values of antiquity, from a certain point onwards, recounted the salient events of the Empire and in particular focused on the death of Emperors. These interpreted this fact and so, favored the sovereign for which they wrote. They become arbiters of facts and judges of the Augusti. As Bishops, they discharged them or condemned them. These redesigned the imagery of the afterlife of the Emperor.

Keywords

• bishop
• emperor
• storytelling
• afterlife
• the death of emperor