TY - CHAP
T1 - SOCIAL RELATIONS IN LUCAN’S BELLUM CIVILE
AU - Coffee, Neil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2011 Brill. All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This chapter describes how Lucan makes the disruption of social ties in civil war appear particularly acute. Apart from Pompey, who is too weak to successfully champion them, elites abandon and violate the social values of fides, gratia, and pietas. This failure is thrown into relief by their limited performance of social relations: only Romans of lower social status generally uphold relational values by acting them out. Romans also suffer by comparison with other nations. Greeks adhere to Roman social values more than Romans themselves, who are denigrated by assimilation to Egyptians.
AB - This chapter describes how Lucan makes the disruption of social ties in civil war appear particularly acute. Apart from Pompey, who is too weak to successfully champion them, elites abandon and violate the social values of fides, gratia, and pietas. This failure is thrown into relief by their limited performance of social relations: only Romans of lower social status generally uphold relational values by acting them out. Romans also suffer by comparison with other nations. Greeks adhere to Roman social values more than Romans themselves, who are denigrated by assimilation to Egyptians.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85164927933
U2 - 10.1163/9789004217096_023
DO - 10.1163/9789004217096_023
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85164927933
T3 - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
SP - 417
EP - 432
BT - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
ER -