Keywords
civil war
epic poetry
flavian epic
Roman Principate
Abstract
The word regnum and its associated meanings witness the passage of the monarchical conception that accompanied the transition from the Roman republic to the Empire; furthermore, this word constitutes an intertextual term that underwent an important transformation from Virgil to Valerius Flaccus. The current article shows a study about the concept in question that in the Augustan poet can be assumed as positive, but due to the incorporation of the destructive aspect that it acquires with Lucan from its terminological association with the word nefas, is received by the flavian in such a way that his Argonautica reflect a paradoxical dichotomy around civil wars, the tyrannical exercise of power and dynastic alternation during the Principate.
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