TY - CHAP
T1 - Sulla and the Origins of the Concept of Bellum Civile
AU - Lange, Carsten Hjort
AU - Julian Vervaet, Frederik
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - In the opening chapter on Sulla and the origins of the concept of bellum civile Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet revisit a number of striking and revealing fragments of Sulla’s lost Res Gestae. Embedded in their wider historical and historiographical context, these select fragments – amongst other things – strongly suggest that the term bellum civile came into existence in the immediate aftermath of the civil wars of the 80s BCE and may well have been coined by none less than Sulla himself, in a manner quite characteristic of his unapologetic political methods and conduct.
AB - In the opening chapter on Sulla and the origins of the concept of bellum civile Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet revisit a number of striking and revealing fragments of Sulla’s lost Res Gestae. Embedded in their wider historical and historiographical context, these select fragments – amongst other things – strongly suggest that the term bellum civile came into existence in the immediate aftermath of the civil wars of the 80s BCE and may well have been coined by none less than Sulla himself, in a manner quite characteristic of his unapologetic political methods and conduct.
UR - https://brill.com/view/title/38724?format=HC&offer=542266
U2 - 10.1163/9789004409521_003
DO - 10.1163/9789004409521_003
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-90-04-37359-4
T3 - Brill's Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
SP - 17
EP - 28
BT - The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War
A2 - Lange, Carsten Hjort
A2 - Vervaet, Frederik Julian
PB - Brill
ER -