[publicclassics] New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49-30 BCE.

[Kai Brodersen]

Published today (22 Feb 2024)!


New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49-30 BCE.
Edited by Richard Westall and Hannah Cornwell.
Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2024.
ISBN 978-1-350-27246-0.

“A new collective exploration of the civil wars of the late Roman Republic. A fresh look at a period that requires an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach.”
Federico Santangelo, Head of Classics and Ancient History, Newcastle University, UK.

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for the first time shed light on this crucial moment in the forging of Roman identity. They engage with a variety of problems and topics in political discourse (diplomacy, the concept of libertas, divine paternity), socio-economic structures (allied rulers, military officials, civil war finances, Agrippa’s family), material culture (the coinage of Julius Caesar, the physical remains of Corfinium) and literary commemoration (Sallust on trauma, the lost Histories of Asinius Pollio).

The case studies presented here contribute to our understanding of a period that is just as fundamental for our view of the Romans as it was to the Romans themselves. Arguing for the unity of the period in question, the volume deploys a multiplicity of methodologies to analyse how the trauma of armed conflict and the breakdown of accepted socio-cultural models not only mediated the contemporary experience of Roman civil war, but also left a lasting impression upon how Romans viewed the world. Incisive and critical, these contributions by a diverse team of international researchers, both emerging scholars and leaders in their fields, offer a new window into the world of the late Republic and early Principate.

Richard Westall is Adjunct Professor in Classics at the University of Dallas Eugene Constantin Rome Program, Italy.

Hannah Cornwell is Associate Professor in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Contributions:

  1.  Negotiation as a Tool for Legitimacy in the Roman Civil War of 49-48 BCE: ‘A New Policy for Achieving Victory’ (Cic. Att. 9.7C.1)  Hannah Cornwell
  2.  What Is Civil about Civil War? Political Communication and the Construction of ‘The People’ on the Eve of Civil War (49-48 BCE)  Emilio Zucchetti
  3.  The Meaning of ⊥II on Caesar’s Civil War Coinage (RRC 452)  Olga Liubimova
  4.  Creating Alternative Legitimacy: Octavian, Sextus Pompeius and Divine Filiation  Laura Kersten
  5.  Negotiating the Failure of Roman Hegemony: The Experience of Allied Rulers During the Roman Civil Wars (49-30 BCE)  Bradley Jordan
  6.  Brothers at the Crossroads: Agrippa and His Brother in Civil War  Sabina Tariverdieva
  7.  Ghost Walls and Vanishing Towns: The Case of Caesar’s Siege of Corfinium Between Historical Sources and Archaeological-Topographical Data  Vasco La Salvia and Marco Moderato
  8.  The Changing Face of the Command Structure During the Civil Wars (49-30 BCE)  Bertrand Augier
  9.  The Civil War of 43-42 BCE and Army Finances  François Gauthier
  10. Sallust’s Mithridates and the Cultural Trauma of Civil War  Jennifer Gerrish
  11. Towards a New Archaeology of the Lost Histories of C. Asinius Pollio  Richard Westall


https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-perspectives-on-the-roman-civil-wars-of-4930-bce-9781350272460/

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