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Author:   Brian Walters (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9780198839576

ISBN 10:   019883957
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   03 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter List of Figures List of Abbreviations 0: Introduction: The Deaths of the Republic 1: The Republican Body Politic Harmony and Discord Mixture, Degeneration, Morals, and Men 'No Longer Provide Your Blood' 2: Healing the State with Violence Medical Imagery in Late-Republican Politics Roman Medicine and Roman Oratory Salus Rei Publicae Vis Omnium Remediorum Healing the State with Arms 3: Butchering the Body Politic Mutilating the Body Politic Meanings of Violent Imagery 'The Republic's Greatest Wound' Significant Wounds 4: Outliving the Republic Deaths, Executions, Funerals, and Murders Deaths and Consolations 'No Natural Death of the Republic' 'Perish Along with the Republic' 5: Murdering the Fatherland 'Parricide' in Earlier Invective Murdering (the Father of) the Fatherland Vitae Necisque Potestas Coda: Parricide and Caput Patriae Endmatter Bibliography Index of Passages General Index

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In sum, this is an excellent, engaging book of high scholarship of the republican period. * Evan Dutmer, Culver Academies, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

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Brian Walters is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has previously published a translation of Lucan's Civil War (Hackett, 2015), in addition to various poems, and articles on Cicero, Roman oratory, and metaphor.

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