A culture of Civil War? : "Bellum civile" and political communication in Late Republican Rome / edited by Henning Börm, Ulrich Gotter, and Wolfgang Havener.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Börm, Henning, editor.

Gotter, Ulrich, editor.

Havener, Wolfgang, editor.

Series:

Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien

Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien ; v.65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2023]

Summary:

The civil wars of the first century BCE disrupted Roman society, which in turn was a major cause of the destabilisation of the political system. While this has of course long been recognised, the cultural dimension of the disintegration of the res publica demands equal attention. The present volume aims for an analysis of the more implicit, yet fundamental effects which the increasingly militarised conflict had on Roman society, starting with the assumption that the radical dynamics and intrinsic brutality constituted a completely new experience for contemporaries. To solve this problem, Romans of the late Republican period devised multiple strategies for coping with the phenomenon of civil war. While some turned to narrative patterns deployed by the Greeks who had been accustomed to civil conflict for centuries, the bella civilia also influenced many other aspects of cultural life. The latent fear of permanent civil strife thus became a source of innovation on multiple levels which (re-)shaped Roman collective imaginary. The resulting structures and developments constituted a highly elaborate and comprehensive "culture of civil war".

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Wolfgang Havener - Introduction: A Culture of Civil War?

Part I - Political and Social Repercussions of Civil War

Hannah Mitchell - On Not Joining Either Side: The Discourse of Elite Neutrality in Roman Civil War

Carsten Hjort Lange - Naval Operations During the Late Republican Civil War (38-31 BCE): Victories by Land and Sea

Kathryn Welch - Memorable Women and Women in the Memory of Civil War

Part II - Shaping the Memory of Civil War

Amy Russell - The Spaces of Civil War

Cristina Rosillo-López - Speak, Memory: Oral Remembrances of the Civil Wars of the Republic and the Triumvirate

Harriet I. Flower - Self-Representation in a Time of Civil Strife: Publius Rutilius Rufus' de vita sua

Ulrich Gotter - Writing Down Uncivil Wars: Or: How Roman Generals Justified Themselves in the Wake of Civic Bloodshed

Part III - A Transformation of Norms and Values?

Wolfgang Havener - Exempla sibi viam faciunt: Exemplarity in Times of Civil Strife

Frederico Santangelo - Piety and Civil War

Kit Morrell - Missing in Action?: Law and Civil War

Dominik Maschek - The Groundswell of Civil War: Material Culture and Changing Worldviews in the Last Three Generations of the Roman Republic

Part IV - A Language of Civil War

Henning Börm - Stasis in Rome?: Hellenistic Discourse and the bella civilia of the Late Republic

Catherine Steel - From inimici to hostes Internal Conflict in the Oratory of the Roman Republic, 133-88 BCE

Matteo Cadario - Remarks on the Image and the Honorary Monuments: of the Roman Ruling Class in the Age of the Civil Wars. Pompey the Great, Caesar and Octavian

General Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783515134040

3515134042