From Hannibal to Sulla : The Birth of Civil War in Republican Rome / Carsten Hjort Lange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lange, Carsten Hjort, author.

Series:

Studies in ancient folklore and popular culture ; Volume 1.

Studies in Ancient Civil War Series ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Italy--Rome--History.

City and town life.

Urbanization--Italy--Rome--History.

Urbanization.

Archaeology and history--Italy--Rome.

Archaeology and history.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Rome.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Rome (Italy)--History--To 476.

Rome (Italy).

Rome (Italy)--Social conditions.

Rome (Italy)--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

The second century BCE was a time of prolonged debate at Rome about the changing nature of warfare. From the outbreak of the Second Punic War in 218 to Rome's first civil war in 88 BCE, warfare shifted from the struggle against a great external enemy to a conflict against internal parties. This book argues that Rome's Italian subjects were central to this development: having rebelled and defected to Hannibal at the end of the third century, the allies again rebelled in 91 BCE, with significant consequences for Roman thought about warfare as such. These "rebellions" constituted an Italian renewal of the war against their old conqueror, Rome, and an internal war within the polity. Accordingly, we need to add 'internal war' to the already well-established dichotomy of foreign and civil war. This fresh analysis of the second century demonstrates that the Roman experience of internal war during this period provided the natural stepping-stone in the invention of civil war as such. It conceives of the period from the Second Punic War onward as an 'antebellum' period to the later civil war(s) of the Late Republic, during which contemporary observers looked back at the last 'great war' against Hannibal in preparation for the next conflict.

Contents:

Intro

Editorial Statement

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Antebellum and the Illusion of Stability

Chapter 2 The (Great) War Before the (Civil) War: Hannibal's Legacy Revisited

Chapter 3 The Bacchanalian Affair of 186 BCE

Chapter 4 The Internal War at Patavium 174 BCE

Chapter 5 Polybius and his Digression on the Truceless War

Chapter 6 Lucius Opimius and the Rebellion of Fregellae

Chapter 7 From the Gracchi to the Social War and Rome's First Civil War I. The Case of Appian

Chapter 8 From the Gracchi to the Social War and Rome's first civil war II: A New World Dawns

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index Locorum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783111335216