After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Part One Crisis: Concepts and Ideology
	1 Introduction
		1. The term ‘crisis’ and its genealogy
		2. Framing a crisis: Rhetoric and narrative
		3. Framing a crisis with Cicero
		4. Experience
		5. Crisis, anchoring and recovery
	2 (Not) talkin’ ‘bout a revolution
		1. The ‘democratic-revolutionary’
		2. The essentialization of democratic Athens
		3. The ‘imperialization’ of the discourse of revolution
		4. Counter-revolutionary discourse
	3 Security
		1. Securitas and the vita beata
		2. Securitas imperii Romani
		3. The peaceable kingdom
		4. The soul political
Part Two Crisis Traumas and Recovery: Greece
	4 Tragedies of War in Duris and Phylarchus
		1. Duris of Samos
		2. Phylarchus (of Athens or Naucratis)
		3. Purposes and motivations
	5 Changes of Fortune
		1. Introducing change
		2. Crisis and emotion
		3. Turning-points
		4. Crisis renewed: Resistance in the 140s bce
		5. Conclusion
Part Three Crisis Traumas and Recovery: Rome
	6 Coping with Crisis
		1. Florus on Sulla’s civil war: Bloodshed unheard of in Roman history
		2. The trauma of Sulla’s civil war
		3. Scholarship on the concept of ‘crisis’
		4. Vierhaus and his concept of ‘historical crisis’
		5. Vierhaus’s criteria applied to Sulla’s civil war and Sulla’s acts of violence
		6. Cultural trauma: The social dimension of coping with a crisis
		7. A social process of cultural trauma: The case of the ‘Sullan crisis’
		8. The ‘Sullan crisis’, cultural trauma and Caesar’s civil war
		9. The proscriptions of the triumvirs in 43 bce
		10. Conclusion
	7 Alternative Futures in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
		1. Introduction: Alternative futures, narratology and virtual history
		2. Narrative possibilities in moments of crisis: liceat sperare timenti
		3. Imagining (counterfactual) aft ermaths and alternatives to civil war
		4. Conclusion
Part Four Resolving Civil War
	8 Caesar and the Crisis of Corfinium
		1. The crisis at Corfinium: cedant arma togae
		2. A literary allusion to a famous narrative of crisis
		3. A historical allusion to a famous civil crisis
		4. Conclusions
	9 Young Caesar and the Termination of Civil War (31–27 bce )
		1. Approaching civil war
		2. The Settlement of 28–27 bce
		3. Veteran settlements
		4. Conclusion
	10 Agrippa’s ‘Odd’ Speech in Cassius Dio’s Roman History *
		1. Introduction: Debate, crises, antecedents
		2. The wider context I: Dio’s characterization of the Caesars
		3. The wider context II: Speeches in the Roman History
		4. Agrippa’s role in the Roman History
		5. Agrippa’s advice
		6. Conclusion
Part Five Civil War and the Family
	11 The Fate of the Lepidani
		1. The so-called ‘Revolt of Lepidus’
		2. After the crisis: Reinventing family history
		3. Experiencing crisis in the family: Private relationships versus public obligations
		4. Conclusion
	12 The Roman Family as Institution and Metaphor after the Civil Wars
		1. Grieving matrons in Lucan’s Civil War
		2. Exceptional cases
		3. The burden of the mos maiorum
		4. After the crisis
		5. The imperial family
Notes
Bibliography
Index