Citizens of discord: rome and its civil wars

The volume brings together an international group of distinguished contributors and offers a broad basis of investigation of the phenomenon of Roman civil wars, encompassing literary texts, documentary texts, and material culture, spanning the Greek and Roman worlds. INDICE: Preface; About the contributors; List of figures; Introduction (The Editors); 1.: Beginnings, Endings; 2.: The two-headed state: How Romans explained civil war (T. P. Wiseman); 3.: Word at war: The prequel (William W. Batstone); 4.: Rome's first civil war and the fragility of republican politicalculture (Harriet I. Flower); 5.: Civil war? What civil war? Usurpers in the Historia Augusta (Cam Grey); II. Cycles; 6.: v 'Learning from that violent schoolmaster': Thucydidean intertextuality and some Greek views of Roman civil war(Christopher Pelling); 7.: Tarda moles civilis belli: The weight of the past in Tacitus' Histories (Rhiannon Ash); 8.: Aeacidae Pyrrhi: Patterns of myth and history in Aeneid 1-6 (David Quint); 9.: Ab urbe condita: Roman history on the shield of Aeneas (Andreola Rossi); III. Aftermath; 10.: Creating a grand coalition of true Roman citizens: On Caesar's political strategy in the civil war (Kurt A. Raaflaub); 11.: Spurius Maelius: Dictatorship and the homo sacer (Michèle Lowrie); 12.: Representations and re-presentations of the battle of Actium (Barbara Kellum); 13.: Discordia fratrum: Aspects of Lucan's conception ofcivil war (Elaine Fantham); IV. Afterlife; 14.: 'Dionysiac poetics' and the memory of civil war in Horace's Cleopatra ode (Andrew Feldherr); 15.: Propertius on not writing about civil wars (Brian W. Breed); 16.: 'Caesar grabs my pen': Writing civil war under Tiberius (Alain M. Gowing); 17.:. Intestinum scelus:Preemptive execution in Tacitus' Annals (Cynthia Damon); 18,: Doing the numbers: The Roman mathematics of civil war in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Denis Feeney); 19.: 'My brother got killed in the war': Internecine intertextuality (Richard Thomas); 20.: Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-538957-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 23/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés