Citizens of Discord Rome and Its Civil Wars

, by Breed, Brian; Damon, Cynthia; Rossi, Andreola

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ISBN: 9780195389579 | 0195389573
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/26/2010

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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. The present volume brings together e

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Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Beginnings, Endings
The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War	p. 25
Word at War: The Prequel	p. 45
Rome's First Civil War and the Fragility of Republican Political Culture	p. 73
Civil War? What Civil War? Usurpers in the Historia Augusta	p. 87
Cycles
ôLearning from that violent schoolmasterö: Thucydidean intertextuality and Some Greek Views of Roman Civil War	p. 105
Tarda Moles Civilis Belli: The Weight of the Past in Tacitus' Histories	p. 119
Aeacidae Pyrrhi: Patterns of Myth and History in Aeneid 1-6	p. 133
Ab Urbe Condita: Roman History on the Shield of Aeneas	p. 145
Aftermath
Creating a Grand Coalition of True Roman Citizens: On Caesar's Political Strategy in the Civil War	p. 159
Spurius Maelius: Dictatorship and the Homo Sacer	p. 171
Representations and Re-presentations of the Battle of Actium	p. 187
Discordia Fratrum: Aspects of Lucan's Conception of Civil War	p. 207
Afterlife
ôDionysiac Poeticsö and the Memory of Civil War in Horace's Cleopatra Ode	p. 223
Propertius on Not Writing about Civil Wars	p. 233
ôCaesar grabs my penö: Writing Civil War under Tiberius	p. 249
Intestinum Scelus: Preemptive Execution in Tacitus' Annals	p. 261
Doing the Numbers: The Roman Mathematics of Civil War in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra	p. 273
ôMy brother got killed in the warö: Internecine Intertextuality	p. 293
Abbreviations	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 311
Index	p. 319
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