Triumphs in the age of civil war the late Republic and the adaptability of triumphal tradition Carsten Hjort Lange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lange, Carsten Hjort, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil war--Rome--History.

Civil war.

Triumph--History.

Triumph.

Processions--Rome--History.

Processions.

Political customs and rites--Rome--History.

Political customs and rites.

Political culture--Rome--History.

Political culture.

War and society--Rome--History.

War and society.

Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome--Military antiquities.

Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

London New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Many of the wars of the late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their prestige and charisma, and to legitimize their power. Triumphs in the Age of Civil War rethinks the nature and the character of the phenomenon of civil war during the Late Republic. At the same time it focuses on a key feature of the Roman socio-political order, the triumph, and argues that a commander could in practice expect to triumph after a civil war victory if it could also be represented as being over a foreign enemy, even if the principal opponent was clearly Roman. Significantly, the civil aspect of the war did not have to be denied. Carsten Hjort Lange provides the first study to consider the Roman triumph during the age of civil war, and argues that the idea of civil war as 'normal' reflects the way civil war permeated the politics and society of the Late Roman Republic."-- Provided by publisher

Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their prestige and charisma, and to legitimize their power. Triumphs in the Age of Civil War rethinks the nature and the character of the phenomenon of civil war during the Late Republic. At the same time it focuses on a key feature of the Roman socio-political order, the triumph, and argues that a commander could in practice expect to triumph after a civil war victory if it could also be represented as being over a foreign enemy, even if the principal opponent was clearly Roman. Significantly, the civil aspect of the war did not have to be denied. Carsten Hjort Lange provides the first study to consider the Roman triumph during the age of civil war, and argues that the idea of civil war as "normal" reflects the way civil war permeated the politics and society of the Late Roman Republic

Contents:

Chapter 1: A Voice from No Man's Land : Approaches to Civil War and Triumph

Chapter 2: Triumph, Ovation, Alban Mount triumph and Naval triumph

Chapter 3: The Fasti Triumphales and Triumphal Housekeeping

Chapter 4: The Late Republican Triumph : Continuity and Change

Chapter 5: Triumph and Civil War in the Late Republic : Constructing the Enemy

Chapter 6: Augustus, Triumph, Civil War, and the Victory Monument at Actium : a Reconsideration

Chapter 7: Triumphal Topography : Augustus' Triumphal and Triumph-like Returns

Epilogue: Civil War and Triumph : The Casa di Pilatos Relief

Appendix: Triumphal Arches

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Voice from No Man's Land: Approaches to Civil War and Triumph

Chapter 4: The Late Republican Triumph: Continuity and Change

Chapter 5: Triumph and Civil War in the Late Republic: Constructing the Enemy

Chapter 6: Augustus, Triumph, Civil War, and the Victory Monument at Actium: a Reconsideration

Chapter 7: Triumphal Topography: Augustus' Triumphal and Triumph-like Returns

Epilogue: Civil War and Triumph. The Casa di Pilatos Relief

Appendix: Triumphal Arches.

Bibliography

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references

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ISBN:

9781474267878

1474267874

9781474267861

1474267866

9781474267854

1474267858

OCLC:

952942803