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Author : Henrik Mouritsen
Release : 2017-03-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Politics in the Roman Republic by : Henrik Mouritsen
Download or read book Politics in the Roman Republic written by Henrik Mouritsen. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very readable introduction exploring much-contested issues and debates, and providing an original synthesis of this important topic.
Author : Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Release : 2010-04-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reconstructing the Roman Republic by : Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Download or read book Reconstructing the Roman Republic written by Karl-J. Hölkeskamp. This book was released on 2010-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography. Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.
Author : Andrew Lintott
Release : 1999-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 673/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Constitution of the Roman Republic by : Andrew Lintott
Download or read book The Constitution of the Roman Republic written by Andrew Lintott. This book was released on 1999-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome's empire. He regarded the Republic as unusual in two respects: first, because it functioned so well despite being a mix of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy; secondly, because the constitution was the product of natural evolution rather than the ideals of a lawgiver. Even if historians now seek more widely for the causes of Rome's rise to power, the importance and influence of her political institutions remains. The reasons for Rome's power are both complex, on account of the mix of elements, and flexible, inasmuch as they were not founded on written statutes but on unwritten traditions reinterpreted by successive generations. Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment.
Author : Eric M. Orlin
Release : 1997
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Temples, Religion, and Politics in the Roman Republic by : Eric M. Orlin
Download or read book Temples, Religion, and Politics in the Roman Republic written by Eric M. Orlin. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a new interpretation for the construction of new temples in Rome. By emphasizing the role of the Roman Senate, it offers a reassessment of the relationship between the individual and the community. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author : Fergus Millar
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Roman Republic in Political Thought by : Fergus Millar
Download or read book The Roman Republic in Political Thought written by Fergus Millar. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experienced scholar explains why the legendary early Republic, rather than the historical Republic of Cicero, has most influenced later political thought.
