Rome after Sulla

J. Alison Rosenblitt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8057-3 (ISBN)

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Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original analysis of key sources including Cicero’s pro Roscio, Appian, the Livian tradition, and Sallust’s Historiae. Arguing that Sulla’s settlement was never stable, Rome after Sulla emphasises the uncertainty and fear felt by contemporaries and the problems caused in Rome by consciousness of the injustices of the Sullan settlement and its lack of moral legitimacy.

The book argues that the events and the unresolved traumas of the first civil war of the Roman republic triggered profound changes in Roman political culture, to which Sallust’s magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is our best guide. An in-depth exploration of a new, more Sallust-centred vision of the late republic contributes to the historical picture not only of the legacy of Sulla, but also of Caesar and of Rome’s move from republic to autocratic rule. The book studies a society grappling with a question broader than its own times: what is the price of stability?

J. Alison Rosenblitt is Senior College Lecturer in Ancient History at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK. Rome after Sulla is her second book. Her first book, E.E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics: Each Imperishable Stanza (2016) won a 2018 CAMWS First Book Award.

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Preface

1. Introduction: Sullan tyranny and Sullan instability

One: Negotiating the end of Sulla
2. 80 BC: the pro Roscio vanishes
3. 79 BC: the turning tide

Two: Counter-Revolution
4. Urban conflict and Etrurian tumult: formulating 78-77 BC
5. More than Catiline, less than Caesar: the politics of M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. 78 BC
6. After Sulla; after Lepidus

Three: Sallust and the political culture of Rome after Sulla
7. Autocracy and stability: moving beyond the 'problems' of the speech of Lepidus
8. Dominatio and deceit: Sallust on Pompey
9. Hostile Politics (I): political discourse after Sulla
10. Hostile Politics (II): Sallust's Historiae

Epilogue: Legitimacy and the end of the republic

Appendix A: Evidence for the activities of M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. 78 BC
Appendix B: 'Problems' in Sallust's speech of Lepidus

Works cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	6 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 238 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4725-8057-5 / 1472580575
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-8057-3 / 9781472580573
Zustand	Neuware