{"product_id":"9781469635132","title":"Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians","description":"The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing how \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, \u003ci\u003evirtus\u003c\/i\u003e worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175506788592,"sku":"9781469635132","price":26.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469635132_p0.jpg?v=1763699484","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469635132","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}