title: Dynastic Names and Unofficial Imperial Nicknames during the Severan Dynasty
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metadata.value: Makhlaiuk, Alexander V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:46:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:46:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Makhlaiuk A. V. Dynastic Names and Unofficial Imperial Nicknames during the Severan Dynasty. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 3, pp. 872–897.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.313
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14920
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper examines the usage of official names and informal nicknames in connection with
  the dynastic policy of the Severans. No other period in the history of the Roman Empire was
  characterized by such an intense “change of names” as the era of the Severan dynasty because
  imperial onomastics and titulature played an important role in legitimization of the new dynasty,
  which ascended to power as a result of the civil war. Along with the names that from the
  very beginning of the Principate became part of official imperial titulature (Caesar, Augustus),
  during the age of the Severans, the “dynastic” names, especially the nomen Antoninorum, came
  to the fore. They had an ideological background playing a crucial role in representation of
  power and “dynastic” continuity. By virtue of their specific aura, the nomen Antoninorum and
  other names were destined to indicate the continuation of the tradition of the Golden age,
  consolidation of power. They served as political slogans symbolizing adherence to a particular
  political line. Roman onomastic traditions which allowed (or even implied) mutatio nominis,
  when family or political status was changed, set certain prerequisites for this process. At the
  same time, these traditions implied giving policymakers various nicknames with humorous or
  pejorative connotations, which should be considered as a form of reaction of different social
  groups to the behavior and personality traits of the rulers. These nicknames, including dysphemisms
  or negative modification of official or semantically neutral names, usually emerged
  when there was a discrepancy between the moral qualities of the ruler and expectations of the
  society. Besides that, imperial names were reinterpreted both as far as their literal meanings
  were concerned and with regard to the associations with the key figures who had been on the
  imperial throne and embodied the ideal of a ruler.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research is supported by the grant of the Russian foundation for basic research/ Russian foundation
  for humanities, the project N 16-01-00297 “Unofficial names and nicknames of political leaders of the
  Ancient world as cultural-historical and political phenomenon”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Severan dynasty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dynastic crises
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: imperial titulature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: informal names and nicknames
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Dynastic Names and Unofficial Imperial Nicknames during the Severan Dynasty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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