Citizens of discord : Rome and its civil wars /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199780228 0199780226 9780199866496 019986649X 0190452854 9780190452858 1282712640 9781282712645 9786612712647 6612712643 |