The emperor Justinian’s (527-565) penchant for naming institutional bodies after himself is a well-known feature of his reign - not only to modern scholarship but already for his contemporaries. The present study takes a closer look at the cities which were conferred the name of Justinian and Theodora since it may shed light on the emperor’s vision for the empire and his relations to the cities. The study sets off with an investigation of the various contexts, incentives and initiators for the grant of Justinian’s appellation to the cities. In brief, the confer of imperial epithets concerned the relation between the emperor and his subjects, who petitioned with him for this honour and received his name as a token of benevolence. The emperor’s favour conveyed power, and those below him strove to get his attention. In passing, the study also considers the longevity of the imperial eponyms. They did not usually stick in the subsequent centuries, partly because there were far too many cities named after the couple than was handy for the central administration, but also because the eponyms lost their function in the course of time.

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Justinianus Eponymus：对城市命名的最后全盛时期的思考

查士丁尼皇帝 (527-565) 喜欢用自己的名字命名机构，这是他统治时期的一个众所周知的特征——不仅是现代学术，而且对于他的同时代人来说也是如此。本研究仔细研究了被授予查士丁尼和西奥多拉名字的城市，因为它可以阐明皇帝对帝国的愿景以及他与城市的关系。该研究首先调查了将查士丁尼 (Justinian) 称号授予城市的各种背景、激励措施和发起者。简而言之，封号关乎皇帝与臣民之间的关系，臣民向他请愿，以示仁慈。皇帝的恩宠传达了权力，他下面的人努力引起他的注意。顺便 该研究还考虑了帝国地名的寿命。在随后的几个世纪里，它们通常不会坚持下去，部分原因是有太多以这对夫妇命名的城市，而中央政府无法使用，但也因为随着时间的推移，同名词失去了作用。