ABSTRACT
In Chapter 4, I discuss the various ways of honouring members of the emperor’s family, focusing mostly on the accolades granted them for their military and diplomatic successes (that is, triumphs, ovations, and imperatorial acclamations), but also including honours that commemorated their achievements in those areas (specifically, triumphal and honorific arches). Still, it needs to be stressed that most of the latter were awarded as posthumous honours. Augustus’s consistent actions caused all those awards to become, in practice, reserved exclusively for the emperor and the most important members of his domus after 19 BC, even though, under the Republic and early in his reign, they were available to many commanders. As a result, they became especially prestigious; we only know of very few cases in Augustus’s and Tiberius’s reigns when the title of imperator was granted to commanders from outside the narrow circle of the ruling family.
