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UNISA996200839503316 |
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Titolo |
Citizens of discord [[electronic resource] ] : Rome and its civil wars / / edited by Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, Andreola Rossi |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-045285-4 |
1-282-71264-0 |
9786612712647 |
0-19-978022-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BreedBrian W |
DamonCynthia <1957-> |
RossiAndreola <1963-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rome History |
Rome History Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C |
Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C |
Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C |
Rome History Civil War, 68-69 |
Rome History Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C Historiography |
Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C Historiography |
Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C Historiography |
Rome History Civil War, 68-69 Historiography |
Rome History Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C Literature and the war |
Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C Literature and the war |
Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C Literature and the war |
Rome History Civil War, 68-69 Literature and the war |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: Beginnings, Endings""; ""1. The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War""; ""2. Word at War: The Prequel""; ""3. Rome�s First Civil War and the Fragility of Republican Political Culture""; ""4. Civil War? What Civil |
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War? Usurpers in the Historia Augusta""; ""PART II: Cycles""; ""5. “Learning from that violent schoolmaster�: Thucydidean Intertextuality and Some Greek Views of Roman Civil War""; ""6. Tarda Moles Civilis Belli: The Weight of the Past in Tacitus� Histories"" |
""7. Aeacidae Pyrrhi: Patterns of Myth and History in Aeneid 1�6""""8. Ab Urbe Condita: Roman History on the Shield of Aeneas""; ""PART III: Aftermath""; ""9. Creating a Grand Coalition of True Roman Citizens: On Caesar�s Political Strategy in the Civil War""; ""10. Spurius Maelius: Dictatorship and the Homo Sacer""; ""11. Representations and Re-presentations of the Battle of Actium""; ""12. Discordia Fratrum: Aspects of Lucan�s Conception of Civil War""; ""PART IV: Afterlife""; ""13. “Dionysiac Poetics� and the Memory of Civil War in Horace�s Cleopatra Ode"" |
""14. Propertius on Not Writing about Civil Wars""""15. “Caesar grabs my pen�: Writing Civil War under Tiberius""; ""16. Intestinum Scelus: Preemptive Execution in Tacitus� Annals""; ""17. Doing the Numbers: The Roman Mathematics of Civil War in Shakespeare�s Antony and Cleopatra""; ""18. “My brother got killed in the war�: Internecine Intertextuality""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Z"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The volume brings together an international group of distinguished contributors and offers a broad basis of investigation of the phenomenon of Roman civil wars encompassing literary texts, documentary texts, and material culture, spanning the Greek and Roman worlds. |
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