Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

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ID19945697
AuthorsDaniel J Kapust, Daniel Kapust (0000-0002-2547-5171, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author)
Year2011
Publication date2011-03-07
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueRepublicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511976483
OpenAlexW3214925952
Open LibraryOL29057839M
ISBN9780511976483
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited79

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as other classical writers and later political thinkers, this book develops interpretations of the three historians' writings centering on their treatments of liberty, rhetoric, and social and political conflict. Sallust is interpreted as an antagonistic republican, for whom elite conflict serves as an outlet and channel for the antagonisms of political life. Livy is interpreted as a consensualist republican, for whom character and its observation helps to maintain the body politic. Tacitus is interpreted as being centrally concerned with the development of prudence and as a subtle critic of imperial rule

Aesthetics · Art · Body politic · Character (mathematics) · Elite · Epistemology · Goodwill · Linguistics · Literature · Political rhetoric · Political science · Politics · Prudence · Rhetoric · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · 86 b.c.-34 b.c · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · Literary collections · politics and government · Republicanism · Rome · Sallust · Tacitus, cornelius

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