Citizens of discord

""In this splendid collection, leading scholars of Roman history, literature, art, and law examine urgent questions about civil war as refracted through ancient Roman experience. The essays illuminate an enormous range of thinking and expression by Romans regarding their recurrent civil wars: that such conflict represents a defect in the civic community, or is constitutive of that community; that it marks a breakdown of the governmental system, or is integral to that system; that spells disaster for politicians, writers, artists, and everyday people, or that it furnishes political, social, and creative opportunities. This volume, the first major investigation of this difficult and evolving topic in more than a generation, will offer rich reading for a wide range of Roman scholars, and also for anyone interested in the complexities of civil war in any time and place."M︣atthew Roller, Johns Hopkins University." "Civil wars, more than other wars, sear themselves into the memory of societies that suffer them. This is particularly true at Rome, where in a period of 150 years the Romans fought four epochal wars against themselves. This volume brings together exciting new perspectives on