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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818946603321

Autore

Blits Jan H

Titolo

Telling, turning moments in the classical political world / / Jan H. Blits

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md. : , : Lexington Books, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-61423-5

0-7391-6451-1

9786613926685

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 177 pages)

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Political culture - Greece - History - To 1500

Political culture - Rome - History

Social change - Greece - History - To 1500

Social change - Rome - History

History

Sources.

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C

Rome Politics and government

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C Historiography

Rome Politics and government Historiography

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C Sources

Rome Politics and government Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Athens and Rome : Plutarch's Theseus and Romulus -- Redeeming lost honor : Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece -- The end of the noble -- No middle way, no second way : Rome and the Caudine Forks -- The politics of authority and rhetoric in republican Rome -- Political murder in Rome -- Power without office, office without power : Augustus's Principate -- Afterword: Greece versus Rome -- Appendix: Greece and Rome timeline.

Sommario/riassunto

Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and



telling moments. All the moments-from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate-possess the double character of being turning points and revealing fundamental aspects of the ancient political world. By examining ancient histories as works of reflection rather than works of research, Blits reveals the way ancient historians understand_and intend us to understand_the ancient world.