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Pirates--the Anti-Rome: The Role of the Sea in the Corrupt Governorship of Gaius Verres

Panel: 
"Would That Never" II: Ships, Shipwrecks, and Sea Travel in Classical Literature
Abstract: 

In the Verrine Orations, Cicero played on the Romans’ visceral reaction to piracy as the opposite of Romanness in order to convict the Roman governor of Sicily under the statute de rebus repetundis; he also promoted his own view of what Romanness should be.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Claudia
Last Name: 
Arno
Institution: 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor