Spectacle and Society in Livy's History - Andrew Feldherr - Hardcover Book

	Preface and Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	Vision and Authority in Livy's Narrative	1
I	Enargeia and the Political Function of Spectacle	4
II	Political Authority and the Representation of the Past in the Latin Historiographic Tradition	19
III	Avarice, Vision, and Restoration	37
2	Historian and Imperator	51
I	The Battle of Aquilonia (10.38-41)	55
II	Ad Deos Auctores: Imperium and the "Existence" of the Gods	64
III	Camillus the Historian	78
3	Duels and Devotiones	82
I	Devotio	85
II	Duels	92
III	Torque and Crow	99
IV	The Duel of the Younger Torquatus	105
4	Sacrifice, Initiation, and the Construction of the Patria	112
I	The Boundaries of the Patria	116
II	The Horatii and the Curiatii	123
III	The Death of Horatia	132
IV	Sacrifice and Perspective	144
V	Sacrifice and Imperium	155
5	The Alternative of Drama	165
I	The Stage and the State	169
II	The Dramatic Digression (7.2)	178
III	Tragedy and the Tarquins	187
IV	Sacrifice and the Restoration of the Res Publica	194
V	Verginia	203
App	Tanaquil and the Accession of Servius Tullius	212
	Epilogue	218
	Bibliography	227
	General Index	239
	Index Locorum	243