秦汉与罗马:评较中西的皇朝帝国



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  • Home
    • Sunny Y. Auyang
  • Cultural Comparison
    • The first age of empires
    • The rise and fall
    • Symbolisms
    • The founding emperors
    • Armies and Soldiers
    • Coinage and Economy
    • Cities and Housing
    • Piety and Dead
    • Education and Writing
    • Medicine and Science
    • Dress and Fashion
    • Food and Feasting
    • Leisure and Entertainment
    • Travel and Transportation
    • Neighboring Peoples
  • Silk Road
    • The Landscape
    • Peoples of the silk road
    • Prelude to the silk road
    • Beginning of the silk road
    • Buddhism and Islam
    • The Mongol Empire
  • Book
  • Essays
    • Roman-and early chinese empires
    • Ancient empires bequeath
    • Empire and Hegemony
    • Aristocracy and Ruling Elite
    • Religion and Politics
    • Family in ancient
    • Contacts between han china
    • Policy of mass slaughter
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  • 中西文化比较
    • 世界上第一个大帝国时代
    • 秦汉皇朝和罗马帝国兴亡史
    • 龙在中国与鹰在罗马的象征
    • 开国之君
    • 战士和军队
    • 钱币和经济
    • 城市房屋
    • 养生送死
    • 教育书写
    • 医药科学
    • 服饰发型
    • 食物饮宴
    • 休闲娱乐
    • 交通运输
    • 邻国民族
  • 丝路
    • 欧亚大陆腹地风光
    • 丝路上的民族
    • 丝路前奏
    • 丝路之始
    • 丝路上的佛教和伊斯兰教
    • 蒙古帝国和马可勃罗
  • 专书
  • 文集
    • 秦汉皇朝和罗马帝国兴亡史
    • 中西帝国的王、霸概念
    • 中国皇朝与罗马帝国的异同
    • 中国皇朝与罗马帝国的统治阶层
    • 中西交通的开始
    • 从齐取燕事件看孟子的政治思想
    • 责任道德与绝对信念道德:两个先秦实例
    • 儒家的人治与罗马的法治
    • 泛道德主义
    • 儒家圣王典范的腐化作用

The First Emperor of China and the founders of the Roman Empire

Caesar Augustus is usually called the first Roman emperor, but his fortune depended on his adoptive father Julius Caesar. Shihuangdi 秦始皇帝, literally First Emperor, is the unambiguous founder of imperial China. These three men were all great imperial conquerors.
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Their political achievements were even more important. They instituted similar centralized monarchies to govern the enormous territories, brining prolonged peace to lands ravaged by centuries of war. In the process, they destroyed the old form of government: a republic in the West, feudalistic parceling of sovereignty in the East. The creative destruction antagonized the old ruling classes, senatorial aristocrats in Rome and, in China, feudalistic aristocrats and their ideological heir, Confucians. The resistances were fierce. Caesar was assassinated. The First Emperor escaped three close-call attempts, but his Qin Dynasty fell shortly after his death and his posthumous reputation did not escape assassination.
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3. The assassination of Caesar.
The assassination of Caesar in the senatorial debating chamber. A group of aristocrats, led by Brutus and Cassius, stabbed him dead beneath Pompey’s statue.  (Photo Scala, Florence.)
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4. The attempted assassination of the First Emperor.
The attempted assassination of the future First Emperor (right) by Jing Ke, who gained audience as a diplomatic envoy with a dagger hidden inside a scroll of map.Tackled by an attendant (left), Jing threw his dagger, which struck a pillar. (Rubbing of a second century tomb relief.)
Caesar destroyed the Republic in a civil war, but offered no durable political institution to replace it. This had to wait for his heir Octavian, who won another round of civil war to become Augustus. In contrast, the First Emperor established the political architecture of imperial China, which would last for more than two millennia. Augustus and the Han Dynasty that succeeded Qin were more successful in compromising with the elites, Roman senators and Chinese literati-officials, whom they made junior partners in lording over the common people.
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5. Augustus.
A contemporary statue of Augustus. (Musei Vaticani, Rome). The outstretched right hand is a gesture of authority, part of a standard artistic motif called anadlocutio (giving a speech), seen in many works, for example the equestrian statute of Marcus Aurelius.
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6. The First Emperor of China.
The ancient Chinese left no image of themselves. Later artists produced many imaginary “portraits” of the First Emperor with no resemblance to each other. This one, probably the most popular in Chinese literature, strikes a curiously Roman posture unseen in the “portraits” of subsequent emperors.
Augustus and the First Emperor each projected his image of an ideal emperor in writing. A few months before his death, Augustus wrote his Res Gestae (Achievements), which was placed on bronze tablets in front of his mausoleum. Unlike Chinese rulers accustomed to hiding in palaces, the First Emperor diligently toured the country to inspect conditions on the ground. He left stone inscriptions on various mountains he ascended, publicity more attuned to the Romans than the Chinese. The texts of both emperors survived. Physical remnants suffered the ravage of time.
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7. Augustus' Achievements.
A detail showing the first lines of Augustus’ Res Gestae, from the temple of Augustus and Roma, Ankara.
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8. The First Emperor's inscription.
A surviving part of the First Emperor’s stele erected on Mount Langya, Shangdong.
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 - 欧阳莹之
中西文化比较
 - 世界上第一个大帝国时代
 - 秦汉皇朝和罗马帝国兴亡史
 - 龙在中国与鹰在罗马的象征
 - 开国之君
 - 战士和军队
 - 钱币和经济
 - 城市房屋
 - 养生送死
 - 教育书写
 - 医药科学
 - 服饰发型
 - 食物饮宴
 - 休闲娱乐
 - 交通运输
 - 邻国民族
丝路
 - 欧亚大陆腹地风光
 - 丝路上的民族
 - 丝路前奏
 - 丝路之始
 - 丝路上的佛教和伊斯兰教
 - 蒙古帝国和马可勃罗
专书
文集
 - 秦汉皇朝与罗马帝国兴亡史
 - 中西帝国的王、霸概念
 - 中国皇朝与罗马帝国的异同
 - 中国皇朝与罗马帝国的统治阶层
 - 中西交通的开始
 - 从齐取燕事件看孟子的政治思想
 - 责任道德与绝对信念道德:两个先秦实例
 - 泛道德主义
 - 儒家的人治与罗马的法治
 - 儒家圣王典范的腐化作用
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 - 龍在中國與鷹在羅馬的象徵
 - 開國之君
 - 戰士和軍隊
 - 錢幣和經濟
 - 城市房屋
 - 養生送死
 - 教育書寫
 - 醫藥科學
 - 服飾髮型
 - 食物飲宴
 - 休閒娛樂
 - 交通運輸
 - 鄰國民族
絲路
 - 歐亞大陸腹地風光
 - 絲路上的民族
 - 絲路前奏
 - 絲路之始
 - 絲路上的佛教和伊斯蘭教
 - 蒙古帝國和馬可勃羅
專書
文集(繁)
 - 秦漢皇朝與羅馬帝國興亡史
 - 中西帝國的王,霸概念
 - 中國皇朝與羅馬帝國的異同
 - 中國皇朝與羅馬帝國的統治階層
 - 中西交通的開始
 - 從齊取燕事件看孟子的政治思想
 - 責任道德與絕對信念道德:兩個先秦實例
 - 泛道德主義
​ - 儒家的人治與羅馬的法治
 - 儒家聖王典範的腐化作用
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HOME
 - Sunny Y. Auyang
CULTURAL COMPARISON
 - The First Age of Empires
 - The Rise and fall of the Roman and Early Chinese Empires
 - Symbolisms of the Chinese Dragon and Roman Eagle
 - The founding emperors
 - Armies and soldiers
 - Coinage and the economy
 - Cities and housing
 - Piety to the living and the dead
 - Education and writing
 - Medicine and science
 - Dress and fashion
 - Food and feasting
 - Leisure and entertainment
 - Travel and transportation
 - Neighboring peoples
SILK ROAD
 - The landscape of Central Eurasia
 - Peoples of the Silk Road
 - Prelude to the Silk Road
 - Beginning of the Silk Road
 - Buddhism and Islam along the Silk Road
 - The Mongol Empire and Marco Polo
BOOK
ESSAYS
 - The rise and fall of the Roman and Early Chinese Empires
 - China and Rome: What “culture genes” did the ancient empires bequeath?
 - Empire and hegemony
 - Aristocracy and the ruling elite
 - Religion and politics in ancient China and Rome
 - The family in ancient China and Rome
 - Contacts between Han China and the Roman Empire
 - Did Qin had a policy of mass slaughter?
  • 首页
    • 欧阳莹之,Sunny Y. Auyang
  • 中西文化比较
    • 世界上第一个大帝国时代
    • 秦汉皇朝和罗马帝国兴亡史
    • 龙在中国与鹰在罗马的象征
    • 开国之君
    • 战士和军队
    • 钱币和经济
    • 城市房屋
    • 养生送死
    • 教育书写
    • 医药科学
    • 服饰发型
    • 食物饮宴
    • 休闲娱乐
    • 交通运输
    • 邻国民族
  • 丝路
    • 欧亚大陆腹地风光
    • 丝路上的民族
    • 丝路前奏
    • 丝路之始
    • 丝路上的佛教和伊斯兰教
    • 蒙古帝国和马可勃罗
  • 专书
  • 文集
    • 秦汉皇朝和罗马帝国兴亡史
    • 中西帝国的王、霸概念
    • 中国皇朝与罗马帝国的异同
    • 中国皇朝与罗马帝国的统治阶层
    • 中西交通的开始
    • 从齐取燕事件看孟子的政治思想
    • 责任道德与绝对信念道德:两个先秦实例
    • 儒家的人治与罗马的法治
    • 泛道德主义
    • 儒家圣王典范的腐化作用