A Culture of Civil War?: Bellum Civile' and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome 9783515134019, 9783515134040, 3515134018
The civil wars of the first century BCE disrupted Roman society, which in turn was a major cause of the destabilisation
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Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Wolfgang Havener — Introduction: A Culture of Civil War?
Part I – Political and Social Repercussions of Civil War
Hannah Mitchell — On Not Joining Either Side: The Discourse of Elite Neutrality in Roman Civil War
Carsten Hjort Lange — Naval Operations During the Late Republican Civil War (38–31 BCE): Victories by Land and Sea
Kathryn Welch — Memorable Women and Women in the Memory of Civil War
Part II – Shaping the Memory of Civil War
Amy Russell — The Spaces of Civil War
Cristina Rosillo-López — Speak, Memory: Oral Remembrances of the Civil Wars of the Republic and the Triumvirate
Harriet I. Flower — Self-Representation in a Time of Civil Strife: Publius Rutilius Rufus’ de vita sua
Ulrich Gotter — Writing Down Uncivil Wars: Or: How Roman Generals Justified Themselves in the Wake of Civic Bloodshed
Part III – A Transformation of Norms and Values?
Wolfgang Havener — Exempla sibi viam faciunt: Exemplarity in Times of Civil Strife
Frederico Santangelo — Piety and Civil War
Kit Morrell — Missing in Action?: Law and Civil War
Dominik Maschek — The Groundswell of Civil War: Material Culture and Changing Worldviews in the Last Three Generations of the Roman Republic
Part IV – A Language of Civil War
Henning Börm — Stasis in Rome?: Hellenistic Discourse and the bella civilia of the Late Republic
Catherine Steel — From inimici to hostes Internal Conflict in the Oratory of the Roman Republic, 133–88 BCE
Matteo Cadario — Remarks on the Image and the Honorary Monuments: of the Roman Ruling Class in the Age of the Civil Wars. Pompey the Great, Caesar and Octavian
General Index
