Virtus romana : politics and morality in the Roman histories /
"Late Roman historians sought to respond to the present through the evaluation of the past. Historiography was, therefore, a prime site for defining Roman identity. One of the key concepts for historians was virtus (roughly, "manly courage"). As a political and moral concept, virtus w...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
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Table of Contents:
- The concept of virtus
- Virtus in Sallust
- Virtus in Livy
- Virtus in Velleius
- Virtus in Tacitus.