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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 October 2022
      13 October 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009029995
      9781316516447
      9781009014281
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029995
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 384 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.621kg, 384 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Area Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Classics after Antiquity
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Area Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Classics after Antiquity
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    Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to this day. Integrative and disintegrative readings begun in antiquity (Vergil and Lucan) have left their mark on answers given by Christians (Augustine), secular republicans (Victor Hugo), and disillusioned satirists (Michel Houellebecq) alike. France's self-understanding as a new Rome – republican during the Revolution, imperial under successive Napoleons – makes it a special case in the Roman tradition. The same story returns repeatedly. A golden age of restoration glimmers on the horizon, but comes in the guise of a decadent, oriental empire that reintroduces and exposes everything already wrong under the defunct republic. Central to the price of social order is patriarchy's need to subjugate women.

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    ‘Michèle Lowrie and Barbara Vinken’s book addresses an important topic at a crucial moment … this is an important and challenging book …’

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