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Virtus Romana: Politics And Morality In The Rom... -

Balmaceda highlights a dichotomy between virilis-virtus (manly courage in war) and humana-virtus (moral virtues like justice and clemency). Book Details

Catalina Balmaceda , Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (2017). Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Rom...

Views virtus through the lens of decline. He argues that the loss of external threats ( metus hostilis ) led the Roman nobility to abandon true service to the state, replacing virtus with vices like avarice and ambition. and intellectual history

Scholars of Roman history, historiography, and intellectual history, as well as advanced undergraduates. as well as advanced undergraduates.