Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 219 pages)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
2019
ISBN:
9781474205030
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9781472580597
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9781472580603
Content:
"Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original analysis of key sources including Cicero's pro Roscio, Appian, the Livian tradition, and Sallust's Historiae. Arguing that Sulla's settlement was never stable, Rome after Sulla emphasises the uncertainty and fear felt by contemporaries and the problems caused in Rome by consciousness of the injustices of the Sullan settlement and its lack of moral legitimacy. The book argues that the events and the unresolved traumas of the first civil war of the Roman republic triggered profound changes in Roman political culture, to which Sallust's magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is our best guide. An in-depth exploration of a new, more Sallust-centred vision of the late republic contributes to the historical picture not only of the legacy of Sulla, but also of Caesar and of Rome's move from republic to autocratic rule. The book studies a society grappling with a question broader than its own times: what is the price of stability?."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Sullan tyranny and Sullan instability -- One: Negotiating the end of Sulla -- 2. 80 BC: the pro Roscio vanishes -- 3. 79 BC: the turning tide -- Two: Counter-Revolution -- 4. Urban conflict and Etrurian tumult: formulating 78-77 BC -- 5. More than Catiline, less than Caesar: the politics of M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. 78 BC -- 6. After Sulla; after Lepidus -- Three: Sallust and the political culture of Rome after Sulla -- 7. Autocracy and stability: moving beyond the 'problems' of the speech of Lepidus -- 8. Dominatio and deceit: Sallust on Pompey -- 9. Hostile Politics (I): political discourse after Sulla -- 10. Hostile Politics (II): Sallust's Historiae -- Epilogue: Legitimacy and the end of the republic -- Appendix A: Evidence for the activities of M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. 78 BC -- Appendix B: 'Problems' in Sallust's speech of Lepidus -- Works cited -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472580573
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472580580
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rosenblitt, J. Alison Rome after Sulla London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781472580573
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius v138-v78
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Römisches Reich
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Politik
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Auswirkung
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Geschichte 80 v. Chr.-77 v. Chr.
DOI:
10.5040/9781474205030
