Rome after Sulla / J. Alison Rosenblitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblitt, J. Alison (Jennifer Alison), author.

Series:

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2019.

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2019

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sulla, Lucius Cornelius.

Rome--History--Republic, 510 B.C.-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original analysis of key sources including Cicero's pro Roscio, Appian, the Livian tradition, and Sallust's Historiae. Arguing that Sulla's settlement was never stable, Rome after Sulla emphasises the uncertainty and fear felt by contemporaries and the problems caused in Rome by consciousness of the injustices of the Sullan settlement and its lack of moral legitimacy. The book argues that the events and the unresolved traumas of the first civil war of the Roman republic triggered profound changes in Roman political culture, to which Sallust's magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is our best guide. An in-depth exploration of a new, more Sallust-centred vision of the late republic contributes to the historical picture not only of the legacy of Sulla, but also of Caesar and of Rome's move from republic to autocratic rule. The book studies a society grappling with a question broader than its own times: what is the price of stability?."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Preface

1. Introduction: Sullan tyranny and Sullan instability

One: Negotiating the end of Sulla

2. 80 BC: the pro Roscio vanishes

3. 79 BC: the turning tide

Two: Counter-Revolution

4. Urban conflict and Etrurian tumult: formulating 78-77 BC

5. More than Catiline, less than Caesar: the politics of M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. 78 BC

6. After Sulla; after Lepidus

Three: Sallust and the political culture of Rome after Sulla

7. Autocracy and stability: moving beyond the 'problems' of the speech of Lepidus

8. Dominatio and deceit: Sallust on Pompey

9. Hostile Politics (I): political discourse after Sulla

10. Hostile Politics (II): Sallust's Historiae

Epilogue: Legitimacy and the end of the republic

Appendix A: Evidence for the activities of M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. 78 BC

Appendix B: 'Problems' in Sallust's speech of Lepidus

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781474205030

OCLC:

1076270834

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