Imperium (disambiguation)
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Imperium is originally a legal concept of authority in Roman antiquity. The Latin phrase "Imperium Romanum" is usually translated as "Roman Empire"; by analogy Imperium is also applied to every empire, whether ruled by an emperor or not.
Other uses include the following.
In popular culture:
- Imperium (album), an album by Current 93
- Imperium (song), a song by Machine Head
- Imperium (movie), a TV-movie series on the Julio-Claudian Dynasty
- Imperium (play), a play by the Austrian writer an director Götz Spielmann (Antares)
- Imperium is the name of the head of the White Martians in the Justice League Animated series.
In narrative fiction:
- Imperium is the name of one of the main villains in the John J. Rust's science fiction novel Epsilon.
- In the science fiction novel Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer, the Imperium are a race or culture that take place during a time of imperialism mimicking 18th century France; the hero, Bayard, goes after an evil dictator of another world using the Blight, an interdimensional space traveling grid.
- Imperium, a book by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński.
- Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, a book by Francis Parker Yockey (using the pen name Ulick Varange).
- Imperium (novel), a 2006 novel by Robert Harris set in Ciceronian Rome.
In games:
- Imperium (game), a strategy play-by-mail game
- Imperium (board game), a science fiction board wargame
- Imperium (Warhammer 40,000), a galactic empire in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
- Imperium (Traveller), a galactic empire in the fictional Traveller role-playing game universe
In theology:
- Imperium is the human free will's 'command' over the lower (i.e. biological) faculties.
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