Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts.
There was, therefore, a tension between the traditional expectation
that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies
and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their
prestige and charisma, and to legitimize their power.
_Triumphs in the Age of Civil War_ rethinks the nature and the
character of the phenomenon of civil war during the Late Republic. At
the same time it focuses on a key feature of the Roman socio-political
order, the triumph, and argues that a commander could in practice
expect to triumph after a civil war victory if it could also be
represented as being over a foreign enemy, even if the principal
opponent was clearly Roman. Significantly, the civil aspect of the war
did not have to be denied.
Carsten Hjort Lange provides the first study to consider the Roman
triumph during the age of civil war, and argues that the idea of civil
war as "normal" reflects the way civil war permeated the politics and
society of the Late Roman Republic.
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The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition
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ISBN
9781474267861
Publisert
2020
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Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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