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The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics: Readings in Livy, Machiavelli and Rousseau Melissa M. Matthes
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The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics: Readings in Livy, Machiavelli and Rousseau
Melissa M. Matthes
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 theatre reveals the performative elements of republicanism.
192 pages, 1 b&w illustration
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 31, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271020549 |
| Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 215 × 229 × 18 mm · 445 g |