José Petrúcio de FARIAS JUNIOR

Imperial administration and acquirement power in Late Antiquity: power agents from the viewpoint of Synesius

Administração imperial e aquisição de poder na Antiguidade Tardia: agentes de poder sob a ótica de Sinésio

Published in Nicholas of Cusa in Dialogue 

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Based on the comparative analysis between the Theodosian Code, specifically the laws promulgated in the fourth century, and the discourses De Regno and De Providentia of Synesius of Cyrene, produced on the occasion of his embassy to Constantinople, we reflect on the strategies of acquiring political power in Late Roman Empire, in view of the legal and non-legal institutional mechanisms that ensured the entry for political office in the imperial administration and how such mechanisms reaffirmed the theory of decline of the Roman Empire by contemporary historiography.