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03201aam a2200457 i 4500 001 FFFF011C9F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 190718s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019946467 020 $a 019883957X 020 $a 9780198839576 035 $a (OCoLC)1108555312 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d GZN $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a ff----- $a aw----- $a ff----- 050 00 $a PA6029.P64 $b W35 2020 082 04 $a 870.9001 $2 23 100 1 $a Walters, Brian $c (Classicist), $e author. 245 14 $a The deaths of the Republic : $b imagery of the body politic in Ciceronian Rome / $c Brian Walters. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 158 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 8 $a That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic suggest that the idea was hardly new. In speeches, letters, philosophical tracts, poems, and histories, Cicero and his peers obsessed over the illnesses, disfigurements, and deaths that were imagined to have beset their body politic, portraying rivals as horrific diseases or accusing opponents of butchering and even murdering the state. Body-political imagery had long enjoyed popularity among Greek authors, but these earlier images appear muted in comparison and it is only in the republic that the body first becomes fully articulated as a means for imagining the political community. In the works of republican authors is found a state endowed with nervi, blood, breath, limbs, and organs; a body beaten, wounded, disfigured, and infected; one with scars, hopes, desires, and fears; that can die, be killed, or kill in turn. Such images have often been discussed in isolation, yet this is the first book to offer a sustained examination of republican imagery of the body politic, with particular emphasis on the use of bodily-political images as tools of persuasion and the impact they exerted on the politics of Rome in the first century BCE. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 650 0 $a Latin literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Political science $z Rome $x History. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z Rome. 650 0 $a Politics in literature. 650 7 $a Latin literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993331 650 7 $a Political science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069781 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Politics and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069960 650 7 $a Politics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896084 651 0 $a Rome $x Politics and government. 651 7 $a Rome (Empire) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204885 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022617.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FFFF011C9F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search