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050	0	0	_aJA85.2.R66 _bM43 2024
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100	1		_aMebane, Julia, _d1989- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe body politic in Roman political thought / _cJulia Mebane, Indiana University, Bloomington.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2024.
300			_a1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2024).
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The divided body politic -- The sick body politic -- The Augustan transformation -- Julio-Claudian consensus and civil war -- Addressing autocracy under Nero -- Conclusion.
520			_aHow 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.
650		0	_aCommunication in politics _zRome _xHistory.
650		0	_aPropaganda, Roman _xHistory.
650		0	_aDiscourse analysis _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aMetaphor _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aRepublicanism _zRome _xHistory.
650		0	_aRhetoric, Ancient.
650		0	_aOratory, Ancient.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781009389297
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389334
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