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The Deaths of the Republic - Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (Hardcover)
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The Deaths of the Republic - Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (Hardcover)
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That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In
extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of
the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the
scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier
republic suggest that the idea was hardly new. In speeches,
letters, philosophical tracts, poems, and histories, Cicero and his
peers obsessed over the illnesses, disfigurements, and deaths that
were imagined to have beset their body politic, portraying rivals
as horrific diseases or accusing opponents of butchering and even
murdering the state. Body-political imagery had long enjoyed
popularity among Greek authors, but these earlier images appear
muted in comparison and it is only in the republic that the body
first becomes fully articulated as a means for imagining the
political community. In the works of republican authors is found a
state endowed with nervi, blood, breath, limbs, and organs; a body
beaten, wounded, disfigured, and infected; one with scars, hopes,
desires, and fears; that can die, be killed, or kill in turn. Such
images have often been discussed in isolation, yet this is the
first book to offer a sustained examination of republican imagery
of the body politic, with particular emphasis on the use of
bodily-political images as tools of persuasion and the impact they
exerted on the politics of Rome in the first century BCE.
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