Contested Triumphs
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Author_Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger
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competitive ethos
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from the founding of the city
joint campaigns
jurisdictions
l cornelius merula
l cornelius scipio nasica
l furius purpureo
livy
m fulvius nobilior
m popillius
magistrates
middle republic
performance of politics
political debate
politics of performance
roman historian
roman political culture
roman senate
roman values
rome
second punic war
senate
tensions
the people of rome
titus livius
Product details
- ISBN 9780520241398
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This path breaking analysis of Roman political culture in the middle Republic focuses on the concerns of the Roman Senate as it decided whether or not to award a victorious general triumphal honors. Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger's strikingly original approach illuminates this process by examining several Senate debates as reported by the historian Livy. The conduct of these debates illustrates the competitive ethos in the elite and mirrors creative tensions between the magistrates, the Senate, and the people of Rome. "Contested Triumphs" shows how Livy dramatized the process of history in the making and vividly demonstrates how it is the struggle itself that remains most vital.
Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger is Associate Professor of Classics at Hanover College in Indiana.
