Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians

by Catalina Balmaceda

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469668629
• ISBN13: 9781469668628
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"