Triumphs in the Age of Civil War

The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvCarsten Hjort Lange

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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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Utgivningsdatum2018-01-25
Mått152 x 232 x 22 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350060579

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ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1: A Voice from No Man’s Land: Approaches to Civil War and TriumphChapter 2: Triumph, Ovation, Alban Mount triumph and Naval triumphChapter 3: The Fasti Triumphales and Triumphal HousekeepingChapter 4: The Late Republican Triumph: Continuity and ChangeChapter 5: Triumph and Civil War in the Late Republic: Constructing the EnemyChapter 6: Augustus, Triumph, Civil War, and the Victory Monument at Actium: a ReconsiderationChapter 7: Triumphal Topography: Augustus’ Triumphal and Triumph-like ReturnsEpilogue: Civil War and Triumph. The Casa di Pilatos ReliefAppendix: Triumphal Arches. Bibliography

This is an important monograph for scholars, but students too will profit from reading chapter 1, where Lange (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) gives a sensible critique of recent revisionist scholarship that has minimized the notion of a Roman revolution—a view at odds with all the surviving literary sources. For Lange, the ancient view of a republic in crisis since 133 BCE explains why Romans transformed their unique ritual of the triumph, a celebration over defeated foes, into the glorification of commanders (imperatores) who won battles over fellow citizens in civil wars. The Romans blurred distinctions by turning the losers in the civil war into allies of foreign foes (who usually had been compelled to take sides in a Roman civil war). Lange expertly reviews the sources on the Roman triumph, ovation, and private parade known as the Alban triumph (chapters 2–5). Most incisive is his analysis of the value of the fasti triumphales. Lange then turns to his main thesis (chapters 6–8), explaining persuasively how Octavian, the future emperor Augustus (27 BCE–14 CE), completed this shift, which culminated in his triple triumph of 29 BCE. The plates and bibliography are excellent. For scholars and serious students of the Roman Republic. Summing Up: Highly recommended.