TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mebane,Julia
TI  - The body politic in Roman political thought
SN  - 9781009389334 (ebook)
AV  - JA85.2.R66 M43 2024
U1  - 320.93701/4 23/eng/20231201
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Propaganda, Roman
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Rhetoric, Ancient
KW  - Oratory, Ancient
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2024); Introduction -- The divided body politic -- The sick body politic -- The Augustan transformation -- Julio-Claudian consensus and civil war -- Addressing autocracy under Nero -- Conclusion
N2  - How did Roman writers use the metaphor of the body politic to respond to the downfall of the Republic? In this book, Julia Mebane begins with the Catilinarian Conspiracy in 63 BCE, when Cicero and Catiline proposed two rival models of statesmanship on the senate floor: the civic healer and the head of state. Over the next century, these two paradigms of authority were used to confront the establishment of sole rule in the Roman world. Tracing their Imperial afterlives allows us to see how Romans came to terms with autocracy without ever naming it as such. In identifying metaphor as an important avenue of political thought, the book makes a significant contribution to the history of ideas. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389334
ER  -