| dc.contributor.author | McDowell, Nicholas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-01T11:26:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-10-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | THE ROMAN ORIGINS of the term ‘civil war’ convey its ‘paradoxical, even oxymoronic, nature’. Bellum civile denoted a just war (bellum) against citizens (cives); but, for the Romans, a just war could by definition only be waged against external enemies (hostes). The notion of a just war against Roman citizens was therefore a contradiction in terms, to be regarded with horror as unnatural and grotesque: the Romans dreaded civil war above all wars and called it ‘intestine’. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 65, pp. 341 - 366 (25) | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/escrit/cgv021 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20307 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) | en_GB |
| dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
| dc.title | Towards a poetics of civil war | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1471-6852 | |
| dc.description | Published | en_GB |
| dc.description | Article | en_GB |
| dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford Journals via http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1093/escrit/cgv021 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1471-6852 | |
| dc.identifier.journal | Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism | en_GB |
