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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791878103321

Autore

Kapust Daniel J. <1976->

Titolo

Republicanism, rhetoric, and Roman political thought : Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus / / Daniel J. Kapust [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-511-99451-6

1-107-21989-2

1-283-01206-5

9786613012067

0-511-99228-9

0-511-99332-3

0-511-98952-0

0-511-98770-6

0-511-97648-8

0-511-99131-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

LCO003000

Disciplina

321.8/6

Soggetti

Political science - Rome - History

Republicanism - Rome - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- An ambiguous republican: Sallust on fear, conflict, and community -- Channeling conflict through antagonistic rhetoric in the War with Catiline -- Exemplarity and goodwill in Livy's From the Founding of Rome -- Tacitus on great men, bad rulers, and prudence -- Tacitus' moral histories -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as other classical writers and later political thinkers, this book develops interpretations of the three historians' writings centering on their treatments of liberty, rhetoric, and social and political conflict. Sallust is interpreted as an



antagonistic republican, for whom elite conflict serves as an outlet and channel for the antagonisms of political life. Livy is interpreted as a consensualist republican, for whom character and its observation helps to maintain the body politic. Tacitus is interpreted as being centrally concerned with the development of prudence and as a subtle critic of imperial rule.