The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics
Melissa (Univ. of Maryland) Matthes
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780271020556
- ISBN-10
- 0271020555
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Year
- 2001
- Publication date
- 2001-01-15
- Pages
- 200
- Dimensions
- 228x155x16
- Weight
- 332