The Roman Triumph (original) (raw)

The present paper will present the significance of Roman triumphs and the purpose behind it in the history of Rome .Triumph refers to a conclusive success following an effort or confrontation and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor .Any triumphal procession ; a pompous exhibition , a stately show or peagant .Mary Beard remarked that the Roman triumph was the victory ritual par excellence ,its celebrates the greatest height to which political Roman of the republic would aspire .Instances of the Roman triumphal victories included as Mary Beard put it ,Pompey had dealt decisively with two of the greatest dangers of Rome security and boasted a range of conquest that justified comparison with King Alexander himself hence (the title the great,(2007:7).Triumphal procession had celebrated Roman victories from the very earliest days of the city .Or so the Romans themselves believed tracing their origins of the ceremony back to their mythical founders Romulus and other early kings .The triumph was about display of success .Many of these occasions were memorized by Roman writers who recounted .The logic of the triumph was a celebration of victory over external enemies only: however on the war between Ceasar and Pompey , civil war could in a sense be defined as a war that would have no triumphs ;Mary Beard(2007:123).