TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gladhill,Bill
TI  - Rethinking Roman alliance: a study in poetics and society 
SN  - 9781107069749
AV  - PA6047 .G53 2016
U1  - 870.9/001 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Virgilio Marón, Publio
KW  - Lucano, Marco Anneo
KW  - Manilio, Marco
KW  - LITERATURA LATINA
KW  - POESÍA ÉPICA
KW  - POESÍA DIDÁCTICA
KW  - ROMA
KW  - FOEDUS
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices; Introduction: approaching ritual alliance -- 1. A prolegomenon to ritual alliance -- 2. Atomizing ritual alliance -- 3. Star wars in Manilius' Astronomica -- 4. Ritual alliance in Vergil's Aeneid -- 5. Ritual alliance in Lucan's Bellum Civile -- Conclusion
N2  - In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds between nations, men, men and women, friends, humans and gods, gods and goddesses, and the mass of matter that gives shape to the universe. From private and civic life to cosmology, Roman authors, time and time again, utilized the idea of ritual alliance to construct their narratives about Rome. To put it succinctly, Roman civilization in its broadest terms was conditioned on ritual alliance. Yet, lurking behind every Roman relationship, in the shadows of Roman social and international relations, in the dark recesses of cosmic law, were the breakdown and violation of ritual alliance and the release of social pollution. Rethinking Roman Alliance investigates Roman culture and society through the lens of foedus and its consequences --
ER  -