Triumph in Defeat
Subtitle: Military Loss and the Roman Republic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 27, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199336548
Description: Why should we investigate the defeats of a society that almost never lost a war? In this book, Jessica H. Clark answers this question by showing what responses to defeat can tell us about the Roman definition of victory. The text traces Roman responses to the Second Punic War, showing the extent to which Rome's reputation as an inevitable military victor was constructed by political discourse.
Notes: Source title: Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic