The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War

• Main Authors: Hjort Lange, Carsten, Vervaet, Frederik Juliaan
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2019; Brill
• Edition: 1
• Series: Historiography of Rome and its Empire
• Subjects: Civil War; Civil war-Rome-Historiography; Rome-History-Republic, 265-30 B.C.-Historiography

The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War represents a close and coherent study of developments and discussions concerning the concept of civil war in the late republican and early imperial historiography of the late Republic.

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Historiography and Civil War -- Chapter 2 Sulla and the Origins of the Concept of Bellum Civile -- Chapter 3 The Lost Historians of Late Republican Civil War -- Chapter 4 Fragmentary Historians and the Roman Civil Wars -- Chapter 5 Civil War and the Biographical Project of Cornelius Nepos -- Chapter 6 Bellum Civile in Cicero: Terminology and Self-fashioning -- Chapter 7 Caesar, Civil War, and Civil War -- Chapter 8 Sallust as a Historian of Civil War -- Chapter 9 Augustus, the Res Gestae and the End of Civil War: Unpleasant Events? -- Chapter 10 Livy on the Civil Wars (and After): Morality Lost? -- Chapter 11 Velleius Paterculus: How to Write (Civil War) History -- Chapter 12 Married to Civil War: a Roman Trope in Lucan's Poetics of History -- Chapter 13 Josephus's Jewish War and Late Republican Civil War -- Chapter 14 Plutarch and the Late Republican Civil Wars -- Chapter 15 Civilis rabies usque in exitium (Histories 3.80.2): Tacitus and the Evolving Trope of Republican Civil War during the Principate -- Chapter 16 Suetonius on the Civil Wars of the Late Republic -- Chapter 17 Epitomizing Discord: Florus on the Late RepublicanCivil Wars -- Chapter 18 Appian and Civil War: a History without an Ending -- Chapter 19 In the Shadow of Civil War: Cassius Dio and His Roman History -- Index Locorum