Citizens of discord [[electronic resource] ] : Rome and its civil wars / / edited by Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, Andreola Rossi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 937/.05 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BreedBrian W
DamonCynthia <1957-> RossiAndreola <1963-> |
ISBN |
0-19-045285-4
1-282-71264-0 9786612712647 0-19-978022-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""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 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"" |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996200839503316 |
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The history of make-believe [[electronic resource] ] : Tacitus on imperial Rome / / Holly Haynes |
Autore | Haynes Holly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Disciplina | 937/.07/092 |
Collana | The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Ancient / General |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-35701-8
9786612357015 0-520-92955-1 1-59734-938-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Belief and Make-Believe -- 1. An Anatomy of Make-Believe -- 2. Nero -- 3. Power and Simulacra -- 4. Vespasian -- 5. A Civil Disturbance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450235603321 |
Haynes Holly
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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The history of make-believe : Tacitus on imperial Rome / / Holly Haynes |
Autore | Haynes Holly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) |
Disciplina | 937/.07/092 |
Collana | The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Ancient / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
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ISBN |
1-282-35701-8
9786612357015 0-520-92955-1 1-59734-938-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Belief and Make-Believe -- 1. An Anatomy of Make-Believe -- 2. Nero -- 3. Power and Simulacra -- 4. Vespasian -- 5. A Civil Disturbance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782960303321 |
Haynes Holly
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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