Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars
Brian Breed, Cynthia Damon, and Andreola Rossi
Abstract
This volume offers a consideration of the various ways in which Rome's civil wars were perceived, experienced, and represented by Romans and others across a variety of media and historical periods. Why did the Romans subject themselves to civil conflict repeatedly over the long course of their history? Is there something distinctive about the nature and quality of a Roman civil war? How does civil war insinuate itself into the Roman worldview and into what it means to be Roman? What influence does the Roman propensity for civil war have over how other cultures define Rome? The link between dis ... More
This volume offers a consideration of the various ways in which Rome's civil wars were perceived, experienced, and represented by Romans and others across a variety of media and historical periods. Why did the Romans subject themselves to civil conflict repeatedly over the long course of their history? Is there something distinctive about the nature and quality of a Roman civil war? How does civil war insinuate itself into the Roman worldview and into what it means to be Roman? What influence does the Roman propensity for civil war have over how other cultures define Rome? The link between discordia and Rome is persistent, and the defining role of, or, to take a longer view, the creative impetus given by civil war's conflict and destruction manifested itself in a variety of areas of Roman experience: politics, ethics, society, literature, to name some of those examined here.
Keywords:
discordia,
Rome,
civil war
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195389579 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389579.001.0001 |
Authors
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Brian Breed, editor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Cynthia Damon, editor
University of Pennsylvania
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Andreola Rossi, editor
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