Name: Civil war and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern (Classics After Antiquity)
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Author: Lowrie, Michèle ; Vinken, Barbara
ISBN: 9781316516447

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Civil war and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern (Classics After Antiquity)

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Physical Book

Author

Michèle Lowrie

Barbara Vinken

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9781316516447

Synopsis "Civil war and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern (Classics After Antiquity) "

Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to this day. Integrative and disintegrative readings begun in antiquity (Vergil and Lucan) have left their mark on answers given by Christians (Augustine), secular republicans (Victor Hugo), and disillusioned satirists (Michel Houellebecq) alike. France's self-understanding as a new Rome - republican during the Revolution, imperial under successive Napoleons - makes it a special case in the Roman tradition. The same story returns repeatedly. A golden age of restoration glimmers on the horizon, but comes in the guise of a decadent, oriental empire that reintroduces and exposes everything already wrong under the defunct republic. Central to the price of social order is patriarchy's need to subjugate women.

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