Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War - Brossura

Henderson

 
9780521028660: Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War

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An examination of the disjunction between the militaristic culture of classical Rome, and the domination of its history by civil war.

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Recensione

"...the patient reader (even if his or her patience is often tried) will find consistent nuggets of gold. It's what makes Henderson worth reading: it's part of his (c)harm." Classical World

Descrizione del libro

The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in valour, conquest and triumph, and the domination of its history by civil war, where Roman soldiers killed so many Romans for control of Rome.

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9780521580267: Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521580269 ISBN 13:  9780521580267
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1998
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