Citizens of discord : Rome and its civil wars / edited by Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, Andreola Rossi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breed, Brian W.

Damon, Cynthia, 1957-

Rossi, Andreola, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C.

Rome.

Rome--History--Civil War, 49-45 B.C.

Rome--History--Civil War, 43-31 B.C.

Rome--History--Civil War, 68-69.

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.

Physical Description:

xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, and 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 and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195389579

0195389573

OCLC:

456729699

Publisher Number:

99941797912