Representation of the Senatorial Social Class in the Late Roman Textual Sources
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In the social structure of the Late Roman Empire, there were several groups of elites. The authors of the ancient texts can be considered as one of such groups. Not only because they usually belonged to the educated higher social classes, but their texts also influenced the narrative of current historians in various research areas. Considering that the ancient authors were often biased in some way and their texts generally did not portray objective truth, it is important to analyze not only the text themselves but also the motivation of the persons writing them. The presented paper analyzes how the senatorial class of the Late Roman Empire was presented in the chosen textual sources of the Late Antiquity while taking into account the personal agenda of their authors. The main focus of the paper lies on the works of the selected Late Roman authors, especially on the works of historian Ammianus Marcellinus and the typical representative of the senatorial order, Q. Aurelius Symmachus. |
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