Emperor and Law in The Orations of Themistios.

The substitution of the Roman republic by Hellenistic oriental monarchy, the process extending through three centuries, found its legal-theorethical justification in the Hellenistic theory of a monarch as a live or spritualized law (νόμον ε<ψυχοϕ, lex animata). This theory is in contrary to the Roman republican concept of emperor (princeps, dominus) as a mandatary of Roman people. This idea was especially expressed by Themistios, great pagan orator and philosopher from IV century, in his several orations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]