New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49-30 BCE / edited by Richard Westall and Hannah Cornwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westall, Richard, editor.

Cornwell, Hannah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Rome.

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

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]

Summary:

"Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, this book explores eleven papers which shed light on this crucial moment in the forging of Roman identity. They engage with a variety of problems and topics in political discourse (diplomacy, the concept of libertas, divine paternity); socio-economic structures (allied rulers, military officials, civil war finances, Agrippa's family); material culture (the coinage of Julius Caesar, the physical remains of Corfinium); and literary commemoration (Sallust on trauma, the lost Histories of Asinius Pollio)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Also available from Bloomsbury

Title page

Copyright page

CONTENTS

FIGURES

TABLES

CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1. Historiography and the contemporary world

2. New perspectives

3. Looking to the future

CHAPTER 1 NEGOTIATION AS A TOOL FOR LEGITIMACY IN THE ROMAN CIVIL WAR OF 49-48 BCE: 'A NEW POLICY FOR ACHIEVING VICTORY' (CIC. ATT . 9.7C.1)

1. A framework of diplomacy

2. Negotiating between crudelitas and clementia

3. Locating civil war envoys within a social framework

4. Diplomatic space in civil war

CHAPTER 2 WHAT IS CIVIL ABOUT CIVIL WAR? POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF 'THE PEOPLE' ON THE EVE OF CIVIL WAR (49-48 BCE)

1. Hegemony and popularis strategy: theoretical grounds for a re-reading

2. People or coalition? Caesar's hegemonic strategy in 49-48 BCE

3. Conclusions

CHAPTER 3 THE MEANING OF II ON CAESAR'S CIVIL WAR COINAGE ( RRC 452)

CHAPTER 4 CREATING ALTERNATIVE LEGITIMACY: OCTAVIAN, SEXTUS POMPEIUS AND DIVINE FILIATION

CHAPTER 5 NEGOTIATING THE FAILURE OF ROMAN HEGEMONY: THE EXPERIENCE OF ALLIED RULERS DURING THE CIVIL WARS (49-30 BCE)

1. Introduction

2. Allied experience of Roman 'empire' in the late Republic

3. Military support: negotiating a divided res publica

4. Roman grants of territory, recognition of new rulers

5. Allied responses to the breakdown of Roman hegemony

6. Conclusions

CHAPTER 6 BROTHERS AT THE CROSSROADS: AGRIPPA AND HIS BROTHER IN CIVIL WAR

1. What do we know about Agrippa's brother?

2. The origin of Marcus Agrippa

3. Agrippa's acquaintance with young Octavius

4. Agrippa and his brother: on opposing sides in the civil wars.

CHAPTER 7 GHOST WALLS AND VANISHING TOWNS: THE CASE OF CAESAR'S SIEGE OF CORFINIUM BETWEEN HISTORICAL SOURCES AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL-TOPOGRAPHICAL DATA

2. Some general topographic remarks on the strategic advantage of the Peligna valley and Corfinium

3. The urban development of ancient Corfinium

4. Caesar's siege of Corfinium

5. Discussion

6. The battle for Corfinium: from a minor military skirmish to a major political change

7. Conclusion

CHAPTER 8 THE CHANGING FACE OF THE COMMAND STRUCTURE DURING THE CIVIL WARS (49-30 BCE)

CHAPTER 9 THE CIVIL WAR OF 43-42 BCE AND ARMY FINANCES

1. Strength of the armies

2. Expenditure

3. Sources of income

4. A juggernaut funded by a 'war economy'?

CHAPTER 10 SALLUST'S MITHRIDATES AND THE CULTURAL TRAUMA OF CIVIL WAR

2. Sallust's Histories

3. Theories of cultural trauma

4. Mithridates and the failure of normative inversion

5. Conclusions: Sallust as witness to trauma

CHAPTER 11 TOWARDS A NEW ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LOST HISTORIES OF C. ASINIUS POLLIO

1. Historian and dramatist

2. The significance of a preposition

3. The chronological parameters of the Historiae

4. The implications of Gades

5. Libertas and Caesar

6. Fighting against Cato

7. Judgement on Cicero

8. Loyalty to Antonius

9. The audience of the Historiae

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350272491

1350272493

9781350272484

1350272485

OCLC:

1409686138