By Alison E. Cooley Abstract: The chapter starts with an assessment of the importance of Italy’s support for Augustus in the lead up to Actium, and how the theme of tota Italia continued to be promoted afterwards. It…
By Carole Newlands Abstract: This paper examines Statius’ depiction of landscape in comparison with Ovid’s. Three landscapes that illustrate Statius’ important and complex debt to Ovid are discussed: the sacred grove…
By Harriet I. Flower Abstract: This chapter asks what civil war does to a republic, arguing that civil war destroys not only people and property but the whole social contract that gives a republic coherence. It…
By Rhiannon Ash Abstract: This chapter examines three conspicuous instances of historiographical synkrisis in Tacitus’ Histories (Histories 1.50.2–3; 2.38; 3.51) in which the republican civil wars are the lens through…