Naval prefecture and its place in the roman command system (early Roman Empire)
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2687-0967-2021-48-4-755-765Keywords:
navy of the Roman Empire, imperial power, Roman equestrian order, equestrian career, prefecture, provinces, procuratorsAbstract
The subject of the article is the naval prefecture of the Roman Empire in the 1st – 2nd centuries. The role and place of the prefects of the fleet in the system of military command is considered in connection with the analysis of the scheme of the equestrian military and administrative career that was formed in this period. Based on literary and epigraphic sources, the prerequisites and stages of the Equit career are shown. The article substantiates the point of view of the growing interest of the emperors in the use of appointees from among the equites as an alternative to commanders and administrators from among the senators. It is emphasized that the interest on the part of equites to participate in state affairs also increased which found expression in the desire of equites to capture the stages of their career in the inscriptions. Respectively, the article deals with the problem of the gradual integration of the naval prefecture into the system of Equit posts. It is shown that the result was the transformation of this prefecture (at least with regard to the command of the largest fleets of the Empire) into a position of the procuratorial level. This is explained in the important role that the Roman naval formations played in ensuring Roman rule both in the central part of the state and on its distant periphery.
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