Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond

Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond by Michle Lowrie

Representations of civil war in classical and Christian Latin and their reception in French literature reveal the formative influence of the Roman civil wars on the modern imagination. Optimistic solutions defer resolution beyond the end of history. Within history, a decadent empire resolves republican discord at a terrible price.

Michèle Lowrie is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the College, University of Chicago. She is the author of Horace's Narrative Odes (1997) and Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (2009) and had edited Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Odes and Epodes (2009), and co-edited Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law (2015) and The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil (2006). Barbara Vinken is chair of French and Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Her most recent books include Krieg als Opfer? Franz Marc illustriert Gustave Flauberts 'Legende des Heiligen Julian' (2021), Bel Ami. In diesem Babylon leben wir noch immer (2020) and Flaubert Postsecular: Modernity Crossed Out (2015).

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ISBN 13	9781316516447
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Title	Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
Author	Michle Lowrie
Series	Classics After Antiquity
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2022-10-13
Number of pages	360
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