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The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War is part of a burgeoning new trend that focuses on the great impact of stasis and civil war on Roman society. This volume specifically concentrates on the Late Republic, a transformative period marked by social and political violence, stasis, factional strife, and civil war. Its constitutive chapters closely study developments and discussions concerning the concept of civil war in the late republican and early imperial historiography of the late Republic, from L. Cornelius Sulla Felix to the Severan dynasty.
Price: $180.00
Pages: 530
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire
Publication Date:
15 August 2019
ISBN: 9789004373594
Format: Hardcover
"The volume is a welcome addition to numerous recent studies on the civil wars of the late Republic – which continues to be an area of productive research – focusing as it does on the integral importance of historiography and reflecting on the creation of the narratives we have available. (...)
As full translations have been provided throughout, the volume is highly accessible. The editors have put together a substantial contribution to the ongoing work on Late Republican civil war, which perhaps most strikingly draws out, through its focus on historiography and individual authors, the ongoing fascination and influence of those wars for authors of subsequent periods of Rome’s history." Hannah Cornwell in Acta Classica LXIV (2021)
"The editors bring together experts on ancient Roman historians in an attempt to define and understand these Roman historians’ concepts of civil war. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates that there is not one single narrative but multiple narratives on the impact of civil war" M. A. Byron, CHOICEconnect, 2020.57.06
"Overall, this is a valuable volume that contributes a number of illuminating case studies to contemporary discussions about how the memory and representation of civil war were forged, contested and adapted. [...] It is when these contributions are in dialogue with each other (directly or indirectly) that this volume most shines [..] particularly for the reader who takes the time to explore the full collection, this volume successfully illustrates the uid nature of the memory of late republican civil war and the diverse ways in which historiographical writing shaped (and was shaped) by it over the centuries." Jennifer Gerrish, Journal of Roman Studies, 111, 304-5.
"The editors bring together experts on ancient Roman historians in an attempt to define and understand these Roman historians’ concepts of civil war. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates that there is not one single narrative but multiple narratives on the impact of civil war" M. A. Byron, CHOICEconnect, 2020.57.06
"Overall, this is a valuable volume that contributes a number of illuminating case studies to contemporary discussions about how the memory and representation of civil war were forged, contested and adapted. [...] It is when these contributions are in dialogue with each other (directly or indirectly) that this volume most shines [..] particularly for the reader who takes the time to explore the full collection, this volume successfully illustrates the uid nature of the memory of late republican civil war and the diverse ways in which historiographical writing shaped (and was shaped) by it over the centuries." Jennifer Gerrish, Journal of Roman Studies, 111, 304-5.
Carsten Hjort Lange (PhD University of Nottingham, 2008) is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Publications include two monographs, Res Publica Constituta: Actium, Apollo and the Accomplishment of the Triumviral Assignment (Brill, 2009) and Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2016), as well as two co-edited volumes, The Roman Republican Triumph (Quasar, 2014) and the award-winning Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician (Brill, 2016).
Frederik Juliaan Vervaet (PhD Ghent University, 2002) is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The High Command in the Roman Republic (Steiner Verlag, 2014) and co-editor of Despotism and Deceit in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2010), The Roman Republican Triumph (Quasar, 2014) and Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2017), and has published a wide range of papers in Roman republican and early imperial history.
Contributors are: Carsten H. Lange; Frederik J. Vervaet; Andrew J. Turner; Richard Westall; John A. Lobur; Henriette van der Blom; Josiah Osgood; Pedro López Barja de Quiroga; Dexter Hoyos; Eleanor Cowan; Michèle Lowrie; Barbara Vinken; Honora H. Chapman; Federico Santangelo; Rhiannon Ash; David Wardle; Bram L.H. ten Berge; Kathryn Welch; Jesper M. Madsen.
Frederik Juliaan Vervaet (PhD Ghent University, 2002) is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The High Command in the Roman Republic (Steiner Verlag, 2014) and co-editor of Despotism and Deceit in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2010), The Roman Republican Triumph (Quasar, 2014) and Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2017), and has published a wide range of papers in Roman republican and early imperial history.
Contributors are: Carsten H. Lange; Frederik J. Vervaet; Andrew J. Turner; Richard Westall; John A. Lobur; Henriette van der Blom; Josiah Osgood; Pedro López Barja de Quiroga; Dexter Hoyos; Eleanor Cowan; Michèle Lowrie; Barbara Vinken; Honora H. Chapman; Federico Santangelo; Rhiannon Ash; David Wardle; Bram L.H. ten Berge; Kathryn Welch; Jesper M. Madsen.