Preview   Scholarly narratives of Rome’s growth often track the strains that its face-to-face model of political life underwent as the city-state developed into a sprawling empire. In his revised 2019 Köln dissertation, Ralph Lange examines an aspect of this process, studying the extended physical absences that Rome’s growing dimensions required of its political leaders … Continue reading Leading Rome from a distance: asserting autocracy through absence, 300 BCE-37 CE