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Civil wars, more than other wars, sear themselves into the memory
of societies that suffer them. This is particularly true at Rome,
where in a period of 150 years the Romans fought four epochal wars
against themselves. The present volume brings together exciting new
perspectives on the subject by an international group of
distinguished contributors. The basis of the investigation is
broad, encompassing literary texts, documentary texts, and material
culture, spanning the Greek and Roman worlds. Attention is devoted
not only to Rome's four major conflicts from the period between the
80s BC and AD 69, but the frame extends to engage conflicts both
previous and much later, as well as post-classical constructions of
the theme of civil war at Rome. Divided into four sections, the
first ("Beginnings, Endings") addresses the basic questions of when
civil war began in Rome and when it ended. "Cycles" is concerned
with civil war as a recurrent phenomenon without end. "Aftermath"
focuses on attempts to put civil war in the past, or, conversely,
to claim the legacy of past civil wars, for better or worse.
Finally, the section "Afterlife" provides views of Rome's civil
wars from more distant perspectives, from those found in Augustan
lyric and elegy to those in much later post-classical literary
responses. As a whole, the collection sheds new light on the ways
in which the Roman civil wars were perceived, experienced, and
represented across a variety of media and historical periods.
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