The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformationsPina Polo, Francisco Nothing from the subsequent Augustan age can be fully explained without understanding the previous Triumviral period (43-31 BC). In this book, twenty experts from nine different countries and nineteen universities examine the Triumviral age not merely as a phase of transition to the Principate but as a proper period with its own dynamics and issues, which were a consequence of the previous years. The volume aims to address a series of underlying structural problems that emerged in that time, such as the legal nature of power attributed to the Triumvirs; changes and continuity in Republican institutions, both in Rome and the provinces of the Empire; the development of the very concept of civil war; the strategies of political communication and propaganda in order to win over public opinion; economic consequences for Rome and Italy, whether caused by the damage from constant wars or, alternatively, resulting from the proscriptions and confiscations carried out by the Triumvirs; and the transformation of Roman-Italian society. All these studies provide a complete, fresh and innovative picture of a key period that signaled the end of the Roman Republic. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
I | 21 |
The Functioning of the Republican Institutions under the Triumvirs | 49 |
Senatorum incondita turba Suet Aug 35 1 Was the Senate Composed | 71 |
II | 97 |
Civil War and the Almost Forgotten Pact of Brundisium | 127 |
A Framework of Negotiation and Reconciliation in the Triumviral period | 149 |
Attitudes towards and | 171 |
The Reception of Octavians Oratory and Public Communication in | 249 |
Words and Images | 301 |
The Archaeology | 327 |
The Sociopolitical Experience of the Italians during the Triumviral Period | 353 |
Hasta infinita? Financial Strategies in the Triumviral Period | 379 |
V | 396 |
Triumviral Documents from the Greek East | 431 |
Antonius and Athens | 451 |
The Intersection of Oratory and Institutional Change | 195 |
Invectivity in the City of Rome in the Caesarian and Triumviral periods | 209 |
The Expression | 229 |
VI | 471 |
Law Violence and Trauma in the Triumviral Period | 477 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations Volume 2 of Libera Res Pvblica |
| Editor | Pina Polo, Francisco |
| Publisher | Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2020 |
| ISBN | 8413400961, 9788413400969 |
| Length | 512 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General |
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