Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
The civil wars of the end of Roman Republic in Lucan’s Pharsalia reveal paroxysmal exactions whose trauma is perceptible as far on citizens’ bodies as on Rome’s one. Lucan even evokes the traces of Roman Republican civil wars in some architectural and urban constructions of the Augustan period. The...
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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Kentron |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/6251 |
| Summary: | The civil wars of the end of Roman Republic in Lucan’s Pharsalia reveal paroxysmal exactions whose trauma is perceptible as far on citizens’ bodies as on Rome’s one. Lucan even evokes the traces of Roman Republican civil wars in some architectural and urban constructions of the Augustan period. The bellum ciuile, repeated on several generations at the end of the 1st century BC, first overturns religious and political main places of Rome, by subverting the ius and the fas. Then Lucan describes Rome as a tragic mythical city, like Thebes or Mycenae, paradigmatic spaces of family crime. Finally, according to the Stoic principle of universal sympatheia, Rome alone embodies the shaking of the world, caused by civil wars. Due to an organic metaphor of Rome’s history, the city then bears the marks of remarkable wounds. |
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| ISSN: | 0765-0590 2264-1459 |