Client royalty

A client kingdom was the royal rule of a country instituted by another power. The client king was subordinate to another state and was installed as king by this .

The ancient Rome so acted often with border areas such. B. Judea shortly before the birth of Jesus . Herod the Great ruled there on behalf of Rome and was able to operate freely in its border areas, but was constantly monitored by the Roman side. The aim of this policy was not to risk unnecessary unrest in strange countries that could come about through direct rule.

literature

• Otto Friedrich Winter : Client kings in the Roman and Byzantine empires . In: Yearbook of the Austrian Byzantine Society 2 (1952), pp. 35–50.
• Meret Strothmann : Augustus - father of the res publica. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07696-4 , p. 210 ff.
• Florian Weber: Herod - King by the grace of Rome? Herod as a model of a Roman clientele in the late Republican and Augustan times. Logos Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-8325-0308-6 ( online review by Julia Wilker on H-Net).
• Markus Sehlmeyer : The ancient world. UTB, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3100-2 , p. 146.