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Title Citizens of discord : Rome and its civil wars / edited by Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, and Andreola Rossi
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages)
Contents Introduction / Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, 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, 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
Summary This volume offers a consideration of the various ways in which Rome's civil wars were perceived, experienced, and represented by Romans and others across a variety of media and historical periods. Why did the Romans subject themselves to civil conflict repeatedly over the long course of their history? Is there something distinctive about the nature and quality of a Roman civil war? How does civil war insinuate itself into the Roman worldview and into what it means to be Roman? What influence does the Roman propensity for civil war have over how other cultures define Rome? The link between discordia and Rome is persistent, and the defining role of, or, to take a longer view, the creative impetus given by civil war's conflict and destruction manifested itself in a variety of areas of Roman experience: politics, ethics, society, literature, to name some of those examined here
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Ancient.
Historiography
War and literature
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115119
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115123
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115124
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 68-69. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115133
Rome -- History -- Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C. -- Historiography
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C. -- Historiography
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C. -- Historiography
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 68-69 -- Historiography
Rome -- History -- Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C. -- Literature and the war
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C. -- Literature and the war
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C. -- Literature and the war
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 68-69 -- Literature and the war
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Breed, Brian W.
Damon, Cynthia, 1957-
Rossi, Andreola, 1963-
ISBN 9780199780228
0199780226
9780199866496
019986649X