Divided Nation - Children during the Civil War between Caesar and the Pompeian Party (49-44 BC)

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ID3014567
AuthorsPeter Emberger (Kompetenzzentrum Gesundheit und Alter, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume1
Issue1
Pages49-61
Publication date2008-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildhood in the Past (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-5716 • E-ISSN: 2040-8528
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/cip.2009.1.1.49
OpenAlexW827631266
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

The paper deals with the question of how children lived through the war between Caesar and the Pompeian Party (49–44 BC). After the outbreak of the war many people of the aristocracy and the senatorial class decided to seek refuge in flight in order to support Pompey the Great. Before they fled several of them tried to get their women and children to safety, because it was possible that Caesar would capture them by using the children as a form of political pressure. So many women followed their husbands and stayed in military camps during the war together with their children. Throughout the war countless people perished and children in particular were the victims of harshness and cruelty throughout the period of con flict.Keywords: CHILDRENCIVIL WARPOMPEY THE GREATREFUGEESORPHANSCAESAR

Ancient history · Aristocracy (class · Cruelty · Economic history · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law

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