Rome with Reagan: What Happened to the Roman Triumph?
Episode description
This episode of Rome with Reagan focuses on the disappearance of triumphal celebrations in Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus. Within the podcast, we discuss Dr. Harriet Flower's paper, "Augustus, Tiberius, and the End of the Roman Triumph." Guided by Flower's detailed analysis of the events of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire, we dive into the world of Augustan Rome and its social and political develpoments, trying to understand just what Augustus was thinking when he initiated the death of the Roman triumph.
read Flower's paper here: https://online.ucpress.edu/ca/article/39/1/1/107457/Augustus-Tiberius-and-the-End-of-the-Roman-Triumph.
Flower, H. (2020). Augustus, Tiberius, and the End of the Roman Triumph. Classical Antiquity, 39(1), 1-28.