Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey

Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey

The civil war between Caesar and Pompey has inevitably been categorised as the downfall of the Roman Republic. It eventually affected every Roman citizen and would ultimately shape the course of events that led to the creation of the first principate. Although this struggle for power has been well d...

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Main Author: Gregory Gilles
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) 2020-05-01
Series:Journal of Historical Network Research
Subjects:
roman republic
cicero
aristocracy
civil war
Online Access:https://jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jhnr/article/view/76
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spelling doaj-43f7c37b9afe46aa98e8631d4f86503e2020-11-25T02:48:18ZdeuLuxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)Journal of Historical Network Research2535-88632535-88632020-05-01411415510.25517/jhnr.v4i0.7676Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and PompeyGregory Gilles0King's College, LondonThe civil war between Caesar and Pompey has inevitably been categorised as the downfall of the Roman Republic. It eventually affected every Roman citizen and would ultimately shape the course of events that led to the creation of the first principate. Although this struggle for power has been well documented, and argued from various political angles, relatively few classicists have debated the affiliations and/or support that these two aspiring autocrats would have needed in order to secure victory. The aim of this paper is to highlight these lesser discussed affiliations by using social network analysis (SNA) to scrutinise Cicero’s letters in order to map the connections between Roman senators at the time of the civil war.https://jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jhnr/article/view/76roman republicciceroaristocracycivil war
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Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
Journal of Historical Network Research
roman republic
cicero
aristocracy
civil war
author_facet Gregory Gilles
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title Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
title_short Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
title_full Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
title_fullStr Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
title_full_unstemmed Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
title_sort family or faction? the political, social and familial networks discerned from cicero's letters during the civil war between caesar and pompey
publisher Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
series Journal of Historical Network Research
issn 2535-8863
2535-8863
publishDate 2020-05-01
description The civil war between Caesar and Pompey has inevitably been categorised as the downfall of the Roman Republic. It eventually affected every Roman citizen and would ultimately shape the course of events that led to the creation of the first principate. Although this struggle for power has been well documented, and argued from various political angles, relatively few classicists have debated the affiliations and/or support that these two aspiring autocrats would have needed in order to secure victory. The aim of this paper is to highlight these lesser discussed affiliations by using social network analysis (SNA) to scrutinise Cicero’s letters in order to map the connections between Roman senators at the time of the civil war.
topic roman republic
cicero
aristocracy
civil war
url https://jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jhnr/article/view/76
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