Sulla and the Origins of the Concept of Bellum Civile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23675971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carsten Hjort Lange (0009-0007-4405-7016), Frederik Juliaan Vervaet (0000-0002-0683-6955, The University of Melbourne) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 17-28 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004409521_003 |
| OpenAlex | W2885976719 |
| ISBN | 9789004409521 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In the opening chapter on Sulla and the origins of the concept of bellum civile Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet revisit a number of striking and revealing fragments of Sulla’s lost Res Gestae. Embedded in their wider historical and historiographical context, these select fragments – amongst other things – strongly suggest that the term bellum civile came into existence in the immediate aftermath of the civil wars of the 80s BCE and may well have been coined by none less than Sulla himself, in a manner quite characteristic of his unapologetic political methods and conduct.
Epistemology · Political science · History · Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |