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Classics after Antiquity Ser.: Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond : The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern by Michèle Lowrie and Barbara Vinken (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-10131651644X
ISBN-139781316516447
eBay Product ID (ePID)20057264781
Product Key Features
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCivil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond : the Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern
Publication Year2022
SubjectAncient / General, Europe / Italy
TypeTextbook
AuthorMichèle Lowrie, Barbara Vinken
Subject AreaHistory
SeriesClassics after Antiquity Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2022-013573
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal937.05
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.
SynopsisCan civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to this day. Integrative and disintegrative readings begun in antiquity (Vergil and Lucan) have left their mark on answers given by Christians (Augustine), secular republicans (Victor Hugo), and disillusioned satirists (Michel Houellebecq) alike. France's self-understanding as a new Rome - republican during the Revolution, imperial under successive Napoleons - makes it a special case in the Roman tradition. The same story returns repeatedly. A golden age of restoration glimmers on the horizon, but comes in the guise of a decadent, oriental empire that reintroduces and exposes everything already wrong under the defunct republic. Central to the price of social order is patriarchy's need to subjugate women., 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.
LC Classification NumberDG254.2.L69 2023
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