A culture of civil war?

• Titel: A culture of civil war?
• Titelzusatz: bellum civile and political communication in late republican Rome
• Mitwirkende: Börm, Henning [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Gotter, Ulrich [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Havener, Wolfgang [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Henning Börm, Ulrich Gotter and Wolfgang Havener
• Verlagsort: Stuttgart
• Verlag: Franz Steiner Verlag
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 370 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Diagramme
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien ; Band 65
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben
• ISBN: 978-3-515-13401-9
• Schlagwörter: (g)Römisches Reich / (s)Bürgerkrieg / (s)Politische Kommunikation / (z)Geschichte 133 v. Chr.-29 v. Chr.
• Schlagwörter: (s)Bürgerkrieg im Römischen Reich <49 v. Chr.-45 v. Chr.>
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: NH 7250
• Sach-SW: European history
• Sach-SW: Europäische Geschichte: Römer
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
• Sach-SW: Political science & theory
• Sach-SW: Politikwissenschaft
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Geograph. SW: Altes Rom
• Geograph. SW: Ancient Rome
• K10plus-PPN: 1819001970

Abstract

The civil wars of the first century BCE disrupted Roman society, which in turn was a major cause of the destabilisation of the political system. While this has of course long been recognised, the cultural dimension of the disintegration of the res publica demands equal attention. The present volume aims for an analysis of the more implicit, yet fundamental effects which the increasingly militarised conflict had on Roman society, starting with the assumption that the radical dynamics and intrinsic brutality constituted a completely new experience for contemporaries. To solve this problem, Romans of the late Republican period devised multiple strategies for coping with the phenomenon of civil war. While some turned to narrative patterns deployed by the Greeks who had been accustomed to civil conflict for centuries, the bella civilia also influenced many other aspects of cultural life. The latent fear of permanent civil strife thus became a source of innovation on multiple levels which (re-)shaped Roman collective imaginary. The resulting structures and developments constituted a highly elaborate and comprehensive "culture of civil war"