Michele Lowrie (University of Chicago), Barbara Vinken (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)

Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond

The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern

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Produktbeschreibung

Representations of civil war in classical and Christian Latin and their reception in French literature reveal the formative influence of the Roman civil wars on the modern imagination. Optimistic solutions defer resolution beyond the end of history. Within history, a decadent empire resolves republican discord at a terrible price.

Produktdetails

• Classics after Antiquity
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781316516447
• ISBN-10: 131651644X
• Artikelnr.: 64680996

Autorenporträt

Michèle Lowrie is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the College, University of Chicago. She is the author of Horace's Narrative Odes (1997) and Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (2009) and had edited Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Odes and Epodes (2009), and co-edited Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law (2015) and The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Figures of discord
2. Oriental empire: Vergil, Georgics
3. Empire without end: Vergil, Aeneid and Lucan, De bello civili
4. The eternal city: Augustine, De civitate Dei
5. The republic to come: Hugo, Quatrevingt-treize
6. The empire to come: Houellebecq, Soumission
Bibliography.