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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Main Author: Pierre-Alain Caltot
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2023-02-01
Series:Kentron
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/6251
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description 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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Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
Kentron
anachronism
civil war
fas / nefas
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Lucan
Hesiodic myth of ages
title Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
title_full Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
title_fullStr Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
title_full_unstemmed Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
title_short Rome à l’épreuve de la guerre civile dans la Pharsale de Lucain (I-III) : des éclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
title_sort rome a l epreuve de la guerre civile dans la pharsale de lucain i iii des eclaboussures de sang aux stigmates du trauma
topic anachronism
civil war
fas / nefas
ius
Lucan
Hesiodic myth of ages
url http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/6251
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