Continuităţi lexicale – continuităţi şi discontinuităţi semantice şi simbolice în Historiae abbreuiatae ale lui Aurelius Victor. Vocabularul puterii supreme şi al deţinătorilor ei
Lexical continuities – semantic an symbolic continuities and discontinuities in the Historiae abbreuiatae of Aurelius Victor. Vocabulary of supreme power and its holders

Summary/Abstract: The vocabulary of the writings of late Antiquity is a significant indicator of the semantic and symbolic adaptations and changes absorbed by certain lexemes in harmony with the changes that occurred in the sphere of the historical reality of reference. At the same time, it allows us to evaluate the way in which the authors perceived them and adapted them to their own political visions and moral conceptions or religious options. There are important contributions in this sense. Following this direction of philological and historical analysis, we propose an original approach below, that is, to examine a series of terms taken from the work Historiae abbreuiatae, or Caesares, by Aurelius Victor which, on the one hand, reveals both the persistence of some elements of classical political thought, and the emergence of a specific political culture of late Antiquity, expressed through a renewed semantics of traditional words, while, on the other hand, it reveals some elements of the historical conception and ideological orientation of the author; here we will analyze the vocabulary of supreme power and its holders.

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