The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-37359-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 530 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

Reihe: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire

The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War is part of a burgeoning new trend that focuses on the great impact of stasis and civil war on Roman society. This volume specifically concentrates on the Late Republic, a transformative period marked by social and political violence, stasis, factional strife, and civil war. Its constitutive chapters closely study developments and discussions concerning the concept of civil war in the late republican and early imperial historiography of the late Republic, from L. Cornelius Sulla Felix to the Severan dynasty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lange, Carsten Hjort

Vervaet, Frederik Juliaan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series

Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen

Notes on Contributors

1 Historiography and Civil War

Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet

2 Sulla and the Origins of the Concept of Bellum Civile

Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet

3 The Lost Historians of Late Republican Civil War

Andrew J. Turner

4 Fragmentary Historians and the Roman Civil Wars

Richard Westall

5 Civil War and the Biographical Project of Cornelius Nepos

John Alexander Lobur

6 Bellum Civile in Cicero: Terminology and Self-fashioning

Henriette van der Blom

7 Caesar, Civil War, and Civil War

Josiah Osgood

8 Sallust as a Historian of Civil War

Pedro López Barja de Quiroga

9 Augustus, the Res Gestae and the End of Civil War: Unpleasant Events?

Carsten Hjort Lange

10 Livy on the Civil Wars (and After): Morality Lost?

Dexter Hoyos

11 Velleius Paterculus: How to Write (Civil War) History

Eleanor Cowan

12 Married to Civil War: a Roman Trope in Lucan’s Poetics of History

Michèle Lowrie and Barbara Vinken

13 Josephus’s Jewish War and Late Republican Civil War

Honora Howell Chapman

14 Plutarch and the Late Republican Civil Wars

Federico Santangelo

15 Civilis rabies usque in exitium (Histories 3.80.2): Tacitus and the Evolving Trope of Republican Civil War during the Principate

Rhiannon Ash

16 Suetonius on the Civil Wars of the Late Republic

David Wardle

17 Epitomizing Discord: Florus on the Late Republican Civil Wars

Bram L.H. ten Berge

18 Appian and Civil War: a History without an Ending

Kathryn Welch

19 In the Shadow of Civil War: Cassius Dio and His Roman History

Jesper M. Madsen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carsten Hjort Lange (PhD University of Nottingham, 2008) is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Publications include two monographs, Res Publica Constituta: Actium, Apollo and the Accomplishment of the Triumviral Assignment (Brill, 2009) and Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2016), as well as two co-edited volumes, The Roman Republican Triumph (Quasar, 2014) and the award-winning Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician (Brill, 2016).

Frederik Juliaan Vervaet (PhD Ghent University, 2002) is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The High Command in the Roman Republic (Steiner Verlag, 2014) and co-editor of Despotism and Deceit in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2010), The Roman Republican Triumph (Quasar, 2014) and Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2017), and has published a wide range of papers in Roman republican and early imperial history.

Contributors are: Carsten H. Lange; Frederik J. Vervaet; Andrew J. Turner; Richard Westall; John A. Lobur; Henriette van der Blom; Josiah Osgood; Pedro López Barja de Quiroga; Dexter Hoyos; Eleanor Cowan; Michèle Lowrie; Barbara Vinken; Honora H. Chapman; Federico Santangelo; Rhiannon Ash; David Wardle; Bram L.H. ten Berge; Kathryn Welch; Jesper M. Madsen.