Sulla creazione dei "savoirs d'empire". Alcune riflessioni in margine ad un recente volume

It was during the Principate that administrative imperial culture was established, but it is possible to identify its beginning from the second half of the I BC. This article discusses aspects of the creation of the “savoirs d’empire” in the republican age, on the basis of the results of a recent book consecrated to this subject: the education of the ruling class; the institution of specific competence for the administration of the empire; the political and cultural dynamics that contributed to the spread of a more homogenous administrative organization in the empire.