Citizens of Discord Rome and Its Civil Wars

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Pub. Date: 2010-09-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Brian Breed is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Cynthia Damon is Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Andreola Rossi has taught at various institutions, including Princeton University, Harvard University, and Amherst College.

Table of Contents


Preface
About the contributors
List of figures

Introduction
I. Beginnings, Endings
1. The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War, T. P. Wiseman
2. Word at War: The Prequel, William W. Batstone
3. Rome's First Civil War and the Fragility of Republican Political Culture, Harriet I. Flower
4. Civil War? What Civil War? Usurpers in the Historia Augusta, Cam Grey

II. Cycles
5. "Learning from that Violent Schoolmaster": Thucydidean Intertextuality and Some Greek Views of Roman Civil War, Christopher Pelling
6. Tarda moles civilis belli: The Weight of the Past in Tacitus' Histories, Rhiannon Ash
7. Aeacidae Pyrrhi: Patterns of Myth and History in Aeneid 1-6, David Quint
8. Ab urbe condita: Roman History on the Shield of Aeneas, Andreola Rossi

III. Aftermath
9. Creating a Grand Coalition of True Roman Citizens: On Caesar's Political Strategy in the Civil War, Kurt A. Raaflaub
10. Spurius Maelius: Dictatorship and the Homo Sacer, Mich?le Lowrie
11. Representations and Re-Presentations of the Battle of Actium, Barbara Kellum
12. Discordia Fratrum: Aspects of Lucan's Conception of Civil War, Elaine Fantham

IV. Afterlife
13. "Dionysiac Poetics" and the Memory of Civil War in Horace's Cleopatra Ode, Andrew Feldherr
14. Propertius on Not Writing about Civil Wars, Brian W. Breed
15. "Caesar Grabs my Pen": Writing Civil War Under Tiberius, Alain M. Gowing
16. Intestinum scelus: Preemptive Execution in Tacitus' Annals, Cynthia Damon
17. Doing the Numbers: The Roman Mathematics of Civil War in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Denis Feeney
18. "My Brother got Killed in the War": Internecine intertextuality, Richard Thomas
19. Bibliography

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