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Document Details : Title: Wavering Loyalties Subtitle: Ideology, Opportunism, and 'Changing Sides' in the Late Republican Civil Wars Author(s): DIJCKS, Niels Journal: Latomus Volume: 78 Issue: 3 Date: 2019 Pages: 591-620 DOI: 10.2143/LAT.78.3.3287364 Abstract : Despite renewed scholarly attention for the civil wars of the Late Republic, certain fundamental aspects of this period have remained understudied: the mutinies, desertions, and changes of sides which occurred. This political manoeuvring is in need of our attention. Consequently, this article sets out to study ‘changes of sides’ to gain more insight in this phenomenon, to substantiate our understanding of civil war dynamics, and to determine what part ideology and opportunism played throughout these conflicts. Examining both large-scale desertions and individual changes of sides, this article offers a structural exploration of this phenomenon during the Late Republican civil wars (43-31 BCE). |
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