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A Culture of Civil War?

"bellum civile" and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome

Henning Börm, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

370 Seiten

2023
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-13401-9 (ISBN)

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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".

Henning Börm is professor of Ancient History at the University of Rostock.

Ulrich Gotter is professor of Ancient History at the University of Konstanz.

Wolfgang Havener is lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	647 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Caesar • Civil Wars • Crisis of the Roman Republic • Early Principate • Fall of the Roman Republic • Kongress Altphilologen • Mommsen-Tagung • Proscriptions • Roman History • roman republic • Sulla • Triumvirate
ISBN-10	3-515-13401-8 / 3515134018
ISBN-13	978-3-515-13401-9 / 9783515134019
Zustand	Neuware