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Titre(s) : Citizens of discord [Texte imprimé] : Rome and its civil wars / edited by Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, Andreola Rossi
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
Description matérielle : xiv, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Introduction / Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, and Andreola Rossi ; The two-headed
state : how Romans explained civil war / T.P. Wiseman ; Word at war : the prequel
/ William W. Batstone ; Rome's first civil war and the fragility of republican political
culture / Harriet I. Flower ; Civil war? What civil war? Usurpers in the Historia
Augusta / Cam Grey ; "Learning from that violent schoolmaster" : Thucydidean intertextuality
and some Greek views of Roman civil wars / Christopher Pelling ; Tarda moles civilis
belli : the weight of the past in Tacitus' Histories / Rhiannon Ash ; Aeacidae Pyrrhi
: patterns of myth and history in Aeneid 1-6 / David Quint ; Ab urbe condita : Roman
history on the shield of Aeneas / Andreola Rossi ; Creating a grand coalition of
true Roman citizens : On Caesar's political strategy in the civil war / Kurt A. Raaflaub
; Spurius Maelius : dictatorship and the homo sacer / Michèle Lowrie ; Representations
and re-presentations of the Battle of Actium / Barbara Kellum ; Discordia fratrum
: aspects of Lucan's conception of civil war / Elaine Fantham ; "Dionysiac poetics"
and the memory of civil war in Horace's Cleopatra ode / Andrew Feldherr ; Propertius
on not writing about civil wars / Brian W. Breed ; "Caesar grabs my pen" : writing
civil war under Tiberius / Alain M. Gowing ; Intestinum scelus : preemptive execution
in Tacitus' Annals / Cynthia Damon ; Doing the numbers : the Roman mathematics of
civil war in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Denis Feeney ; "My brother go killed
in the war" : internecine intertextuality / Richard Thomas.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-328) and index
""In this splendid collection, leading scholars of Roman history, literature, art,
and law examine urgent questions about civil war as refracted through ancient Roman
experience. The essays illuminate an enormous range of thinking and expression by
Romans regarding their recurrent civil wars: that such conflict represents a defect
in the civic community, or is constitutive of that community; that it marks a breakdown
of the governmental system, or is integral to that system; that spells disaster for
politicians, writers, artists, and everyday people, or that it furnishes political,
social, and creative opportunities. This volume, the first major investigation of
this difficult and evolving topic in more than a generation, will offer rich reading
for a wide range of Roman scholars, and also for anyone interested in the complexities
of civil war in any time and place."M︣atthew Roller, Johns Hopkins University" ; "Civil
wars, more than other wars, sear themselves into the memory of societies that suffer
them. This is particularly true at Rome, where in a period of 150 years the Romans
fought four epochal wars against themselves. This volume brings together exciting
new perspectives on the subject by an international group of distinguished contributors.
The basis of the investigation is broad encompassing literary texts, documentary texts,
and material culture, spanning the Geek and Roman worlds. Not only is attention devoted
to Rome's four major conflicts from the period between the 80's BC and AD 69, but
the frame extends to engage conflicts both previous and much later, as well as post-classical
constructions of the theme of civil war at Rome. The book is divided into four sections.
The first ("Beginnings, Endings") addresses the basic questions of when civil war
began in Rome and when it ended. "Cycles" is concerned with civil war as a recurrent
phenomenon without end. "Aftermath" focuses on attempts to put civil war in the past,
or, inversely, to claim the legacy of past civil wars, for better or worse. Finally,
"Afterlife" provides views of Rome's civil wars from more distant perspectives, from
those found in Augustan lyric and elegy to those in much later postclassical literary
responses. As a whole, the collection sheds new light on the ways in which the Roman
civil wars were perceived, experienced, and represented across a variety of media
and historical periods." "Brian W. Breed is Associate Professor of Classics at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst." "Cynthia Damon is Professor of Classical Studies
at the University of Pennsylvania." "Andreola Rossi has taught at various institutions,
including Princeton University, Harvard University and Amherst College."--BOOK JACKET
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Breed, Brian W.. Éditeur scientifique
Damon, Cynthia (1957-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rossi, Andreola (1963-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Rome -- 88-63 av. J.-C. (Guerres contre Mithridate)
Rome -- 88-63 av. J.-C. (Guerres contre Mithridate) -- Historiographie
Rome -- 88-63 av. J.-C. (Guerres contre Mithridate) -- Littérature et guerre
Rome -- 49-45 av. J.-C. (Guerre civile)
Rome -- 49-45 av. J.-C. (Guerre civile) -- Historiographie
Rome -- 49-45 av. J.-C. (Guerre civile) -- Littérature et guerre
Rome -- 43-31 av. J.-C. (Second triumvirat)
Rome -- 43-31 av. J.-C. (Second triumvirat) -- Historiographie
Rome -- 43-31 av. J.-C. (Second triumvirat) -- Littérature et guerre
Rome -- 68-69 (Guerre civile)
Rome -- 68-69 (Guerre civile) -- Historiographie
Rome -- 68-69 (Guerre civile) -- Littérature et guerre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780195389579. - ISBN 0195389573 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42530686f
Notice n° :
FRBNF42530686
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