Book contents
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acknowledgements and Original Places of Publication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Taciturnity of Aeneas
- Chapter 2 The Reconciliations of Juno
- Chapter 3 Epic Hero and Epic Fable
- Chapter 4 Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus
- Chapter 5 History and Revelation in Virgil’s Underworld
- Chapter 6 Following after Hercules, in Virgil and Apollonius
- Chapter 7 Beginning Sallust’s Catiline
- Chapter 8 Leaving Dido: The Appearance(s) of Mercury and the Motivations of Aeneas
- Chapter 9 Epic Violence, Epic Order: Killings, Catalogues, and the Role of the Reader in Aeneid 10
- Chapter 10 Mea tempora: Patterning of Time in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- Chapter 11 Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models
- Chapter 12 Tenui … latens discrimine: Spotting the Differences in Statius’ Achilleid
- Chapter 13 On Not Forgetting the ‘Literatur’ in ‘Literatur und Religion’: Representing the Mythic and the Divine in Roman Historiography
- Chapter 14 Virgil’s Tale of Four Cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome
- Chapter 15 First Similes in Epic
- Chapter 16 Fictions of Citizenship in Livy’s History
- Published Works of Denis Feeney
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General Index
Chapter 16 - Fictions of Citizenship in Livy’s History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2021
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acknowledgements and Original Places of Publication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Taciturnity of Aeneas
- Chapter 2 The Reconciliations of Juno
- Chapter 3 Epic Hero and Epic Fable
- Chapter 4 Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus
- Chapter 5 History and Revelation in Virgil’s Underworld
- Chapter 6 Following after Hercules, in Virgil and Apollonius
- Chapter 7 Beginning Sallust’s Catiline
- Chapter 8 Leaving Dido: The Appearance(s) of Mercury and the Motivations of Aeneas
- Chapter 9 Epic Violence, Epic Order: Killings, Catalogues, and the Role of the Reader in Aeneid 10
- Chapter 10 Mea tempora: Patterning of Time in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- Chapter 11 Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models
- Chapter 12 Tenui … latens discrimine: Spotting the Differences in Statius’ Achilleid
- Chapter 13 On Not Forgetting the ‘Literatur’ in ‘Literatur und Religion’: Representing the Mythic and the Divine in Roman Historiography
- Chapter 14 Virgil’s Tale of Four Cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome
- Chapter 15 First Similes in Epic
- Chapter 16 Fictions of Citizenship in Livy’s History
- Published Works of Denis Feeney
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General Index
Summary
Livy’s History is very interested in the way that societies are maintained by belief in a host of shared fictions. The Roman citizenship is Livy’s prime example of this process, as Rome keeps recreating the model of citizenship as more and more new people come into the Roman sphere. The fictive power of the citizenship allows it to be redescribed from generation to generation. The citizenship is not a matter of shared blood or of a shared place of birth; it is a corporate fiction that can in theory accommodate anyone as a member.
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- Explorations in Latin Literature , pp. 322 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021