Author: Melissa M. Matthes
Release: 2001
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Format: Hardcover 188 pages
ISBN: 0271020547 (0-271-02054-7)
ISBN 13: 9780271020549 (978-0-271-02054-9)
List Price: $47.95

Description

A study of the way in which republican theorists in different eras - Livy, Machiavelli and Rousseau - retell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their conceptions of republicanism. The recurring presentation of the story as theater reveals the performative elements of republicanism

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