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Virtus Romana
Catalina Balmaceda
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sachbuch / Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike
Beschreibung
The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of
virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past.
Tracing how
virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that
virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept,
virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
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Livy, Tacitus, Roman society, political change, history and rhetoric, courage, Roman political thought, late Roman Republic, Velleius Paterculus, history as magistra vitae, Roman identity, Cicero, Roman historiography, Roman historians, historical narrative, Roman intellectual history, Sallust, morality, concept of virtus, early Roman Empire, virtue, Roman political culture