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Conversus ad pacem … (Flor. 2.34.65 = 4.12.65): Battle Descriptions in Florus Reconsidered

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Virtus and Fortuna are the driving forces of history in Florus’ History, which is entirely structured and dedicated to the sequence of wars and battles. The descriptions of battles, based on these principles, form a basic narrative in Florus, and were therefore rightly studied systematically. However, besides specific narrative techniques that are used to construct these battle narratives, I argue in the following that one can also observe developments in these battle narratives throughout Florus’ work.

The Latin text as well as the English translation is taken from Forster 1929 in the Loeb Classical Library. Textcritical problems are discussed in the footnotes where necessary. The two different division of books and chapters in the two manuscript-classes is reflected here by giving both references.

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Günther, S. (2020). Conversus ad pacem … (Flor. 2.34.65 = 4.12.65): Battle Descriptions in Florus Reconsidered. In: Luggin, J., Fink, S. (eds) Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts. Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27859-5_12

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