M. Atilius Regulus—Making Defeat into Victory
Diverse Values in an Ambivalent Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20051254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eleanor Winsor Leach (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 243-266 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004274952_011 |
| OpenAlex | W915585857 |
| ISBN | 9789004274952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Within the traditions of Roman exemplarity, the case of M. Atilius Regulus, consul for 267 bce and suffect consul in 256 BCE who invaded Carthage during the First Punic War, is singular. As Chris Kraus has observed in her paper with Tacitean acuity, reception frequently overtakes factuality where the memory of past deeds comes into play, and the very ambiguity of Regulus' ultimate fortunes allows for a contextual malleability that builds his exemplary status incrementally until it quite surpasses that of the victorious Roman commanders in the First War. This valuation of Regulus will be the subject of my investigation, as positive interpretations come to replace negative, reaching a high point in Cicero and Horace. Regulus reemerges in full heroic regalia in that massive work of historical revival that Ben Tipping has called Silius' 'exemplary epic'. Keywords: ambiguity; Carthage; Chris Kraus; Cicero; Horace; M. Atilius Regulus; Roman exemplarity; Silius' 'exemplary epic'; Tacitean acuity
Ambivalence · Art · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Victory · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2018 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |