This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like mili

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The political rupture caused by the ascension of Augustus Caesar in ancient Rome, which ended the centuries-old Republic, had drastic consequences for the perfo

Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire: this volume examines how these