Brian Walters

The Deaths of the Republic

Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. This volume examines the body-political imagery used by Roman orators and authors of the first century BCE to express this notion, with particular emphasis on such imagery as a tool of persuasion and the impact which it exerted on Roman politics of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 148mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780198839576
• ISBN-10: 019883957X
• Artikelnr.: 58305551

Autorenporträt

Brian Walters is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has previously published a translation of Lucan's Civil War (Hackett, 2015), in addition to various poems, and articles on Cicero, Roman oratory, and metaphor.

Inhaltsangabe

Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
0: Introduction: The Deaths of the Republic
1: The Republican Body Politic
Harmony and Discord
Mixture, Degeneration, Morals, and Men
'No Longer Provide Your Blood'
2: Healing the State with Violence
Medical Imagery in Late-Republican Politics
Roman Medicine and Roman Oratory
Salus Rei Publicae
Vis Omnium Remediorum
Healing the State with Arms
3: Butchering the Body Politic
Mutilating the Body Politic
Meanings of Violent Imagery
'The Republic's Greatest Wound'
Significant Wounds
4: Outliving the Republic
Deaths, Executions, Funerals, and Murders
Deaths and Consolations
'No Natural Death of the Republic'
'Perish Along with the Republic'
5: Murdering the Fatherland
'Parricide' in Earlier Invective
Murdering (the Father of) the Fatherland
Vitae Necisque Potestas
Coda: Parricide and Caput Patriae
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index of Passages
General Index