{"product_id":"virtus-romana-politics-and-morality-in-the-roman-historians-9781469668628","title":"Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians","description":"The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing how \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBalmaceda, Catalina:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Catalina Balmaceda is associate professor of ancient history at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383144943890,"sku":"9781469668628","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d98f8d0c-d4b5-479d-ac3c-56d7f94f17d1.jpg?v=1728779383","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/virtus-romana-politics-and-morality-in-the-roman-historians-9781469668628","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}