Virtus Romana : Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians Paperback / softback
by Catalina Balmaceda
Part of the Studies in the History of Greece and Rome series
Paperback / softback
Description
The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians.
Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system.
These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past.
Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus.
Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times.
As a crucial moral and political concept, virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past.
This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2021
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- ISBN:9781469668628
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781469668628
