Michele Lowrie, Barbara Vinken

Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond (eBook, PDF)

The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern

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Produktbeschreibung

The Roman tradition represents civil war as a political matter that cuts to the heart of family, sexuality, and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009034852
• Artikelnr.: 70911597

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.