This paper re-examines the role of ‘client kings’ in the Roman east in the early Principate. Contrary to previous emphasis on continuity with the republican past, it proposes that Octavian-Augustus enacted a set of measures that fundamentally changed the relations of certain eastern monarchs with the imperial centre. These ‘provincial monarchs’ became a new elite of Roman administrators, personally loyal to the domus Augusta and distinct from ‘client kings’ earlier and elsewhere. This Augustan systemisation complemented the provincial division of 27 b.c.e., creating a ‘divide and rule’ dynamic between provincial monarchs and imperial legates which was expedient to the Julio-Claudians. This model is then used to challenge the view that the Flavians systematically ‘provincialised’ the east as part of a reorganisation of the frontier. It raises the alternative possibility that provincial monarchy gradually died out, following the Flavians’ realisation that its continued maintenance was detrimental to their public image in Rome.

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作为东方奥秘帝国的省级君主：“客户王权”、奥古斯都革命和弗拉维安人

本文重新审视了“君王”在罗马帝国早期在东罗马的作用。与之前强调与共和历史的连续性相反，它提出屋大维-奥古斯都制定了一系列措施，从根本上改变了某些东方君主与帝国中心的关系。这些“行省君主”成为罗马行政人员的新精英，个人忠于多莫斯·奥古斯塔并且与早期和其他地方的“客户国王”不同。这个奥古斯都系统化补充了 27 个省级部门公元前.，在省级君主和帝国使节之间创造了一种“分而治之”的动态，这对胡里奥-克劳德派来说是权宜之计。这个模型随后被用来挑战弗拉维安人系统地“省化”东部作为边境重组的一部分的观点。它提出了另一种可能性，即省级君主制逐渐消亡，因为弗拉维安人意识到继续维持它会损害他们在罗马的公众形象。