Contested Triumphs

Contested Triumphs
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 0520942779
ISBN-13 : 9780520942776
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Book Synopsis Contested Triumphs by : Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger

Download or read book Contested Triumphs written by Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking 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.


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