Triumphs in the Age of Civil War

Carsten Hjort Lange is Assistant Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. His extensive writing on the Roman Republic and triumphal practice includes Res Publica Constituta: Actium, Apollo and the Accomplishment of the Triumviral Assignment (2009) and (as co-editor) The Roman Republican Triumph (2014).

• 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.