The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations

The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations

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.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Introduction, Francisco Pina Polo
  • I. Continuity and change: interactions between triumviral and republican institutions
    • The Triumvirate Rei Publicae Constituendae: Political and Constitutional Aspects, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
    • The Functioning of the Republican Institutions under the Triumvirs, Francisco Pina Polo
    • Senatorum ... incondita turba (Suet. Aug. 35.1). Was the Senate Composed so as to Ensure its Compliance?, Marie-Claire Ferriès
  • II. War and peace
    • The Notion of Bellum Civile in the Last Century of the Republic, Valentina Arena
    • Civil War and the (Almost) Forgotten Pact of Brundisium, Carsten Hjort Lange
    • A Framework of Negotiation and Reconciliation in the Triumviral period, Hannah Cornwell
    • Children for the Family, Children for the State: Attitudes towards and the Handling of Offspring during the Triumvirate, Francesca Rohr Vio
  • III. Strategies of political communication
    • The Intersection of Oratory and Institutional Change, Catherine Steel
    • Invectivity in the City of Rome in the Caesarian and Triumviral periods, Martin Jehne
    • Fear in the City during the Triumviral Period: The Expression and Exploitation of a Politic Emotion, Frédéric Hurlet
    • The Reception of Octavian's Oratory and Public Communication in the Imperial Period, Henriette van der Blom
    • Information Exchange and Political Communication in the Triumviral Period: Some Remarks on Means and Methods, Enrique García Riaza
    • Marcus Antonius: Words and Images, Kathryn Welch
  • IV. Crisis and restoration at rome and in italy
    • Consumption, Construction, and Conflagration: The Archaeology of Socio-political Change in the Triumviral Period, Dominik Maschek
    • The Socio-political Experience of the Italians during the Triumviral Period, Cristina Rosillo-López
    • Hasta infinita? Financial Strategies in the Triumviral Period, Marta García Morcillo
  • V. The triumvirs and the provinces
    • Provinces and Provincial Command during the Triumvirate: Hispania as a Study Case, Alejandro Díaz Fernández
    • Triumviral Documents from the Greek East, Andrea Raggi
    • Antonius and Athens, W. Jeffrey Tatum
  • VI. Conclusion
    • Law, Violence and Trauma in the Triumviral Period, Clifford Ando
  • Index of ancient names
  • Index of subjects

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