Triumphs in the Age of Civil War

The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-11
Mått158 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474267847

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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

The first comprehensive monograph on the Roman triumph in the momentous civil war era, this insightful and thought-provoking enquiry is as much a study of a well-known but poorly understood aspect of late republican Roman political life as an alternative viewpoint on the historic transition from Republic to Empire. This original and readily accessible book much advances our understanding of one of the Roman aristocracy's foremost rituals in a transformative period and is bound to stimulate further debate and reflection.