Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought - Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Kapust is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia. His articles have appeared in Political Theory, the Journal of Politics, Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, and the Journal of the History of Ideas. Klappentext Develops readings of Rome's historians Sallust! Livy and Tacitus in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Zusammenfassung Republicanism! Rhetoric! and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Sallust! Livy and Tacitus in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship and other classical writers and later political thinkers! this book interprets the three historians' treatments of liberty! rhetoric! and social and political conflict. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. An ambiguous republican: Sallust on fear, conflict, and community; 3. Channeling conflict through antagonistic rhetoric in the War with Catiline; 4. Exemplarity and goodwill in Livy's From the Founding of Rome; 5. Tacitus on great men, bad rulers, and prudence; 6. Tacitus' moral histories; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Kapust, Daniel J Kapust, Daniel J. Kapust, Daniel J. (Professor Kapust, Kapust Daniel J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2011
• EAN: 9781107000575
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00057-5
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Political science & theory, Ancient World, Politics and government, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Political science and theory, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology