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The deaths of the republic : imagery of the body politic in Ciceronian Rome / Brian Walters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walters, Brian (Classicist), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin literature--History and criticism.
- Latin literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Politics in literature.
- Death in literature.
- Diseases in literature.
- Latin language--Figures of speech.
- Latin language.
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
- Edition:
- New product edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. This volume examines the body-political imagery used by Roman orators and authors of the first century BCE to express this notion, with particular emphasis on such imagery as a tool of persuasion and the impact which it exerted on Roman politics of the period.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 25, 2020).
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-257595-3
- 0-19-187545-7
- 0-19-257594-5
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