Imperator

Examples of Imperator in the following topics:

• The Pax Romana

  • At this time, Augustus was given honorifics that made his full name Imperator Caesar divi filius Augustus.
  • Imperator stressed military power and victory and emphasized his role as commander-in-chief.

• The Coronation of 800 CE

  • At Mass, on Christmas Day (December 25), when Charlemagne knelt at the altar to pray, the pope crowned him Imperator Romanorum ("Emperor of the Romans") in Saint Peter's Basilica.

• Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

  • Two portraits of him, one as Pontifex Maximus and the other as Imperator, depict two different personae of the emperor.

• The Isaurian Dynasty

  • By the end of the Isaurian dynasty in 802, the Byzantines were continuing to fight the Arabs and the Bulgars for their very existence, with matters made more complicated when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum ("Emperor of the Romans") which was seen as making the Carolingian Empire the successor to the Roman Empire or at least the western half.

• The Last Julio-Claudian Emperors

  • Unfortunately, soon thereafter, Vitellius declared himself Imperator in Germania and dispatched half his army to march on Italy.