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The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in valour, conquest and triumph, and the domination of its history by civil war, where Roman soldiers killed so many Romans for control of Rome. The essays gathered and rewritten here range across the literary forms (history, satire, lyric and epic) and work closely with the ancient texts (Appian and Julius Caesar; Horace; Lucan and Statius; Tacitus and Livy). Close reading and powerful translation communicate the ancient writers' efforts to grasp and respond to the Roman civil wars, and to their product, Roman terror under the Caesars. The book aims to bring to life strong reactions to a world order run by civil war.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Fighting for Rome
• Subtitle: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War
• Author: John Henderson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9780521028660
• ISBN: 0521028663
• ID: 02018830
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 536 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 223 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2006

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