Roman Republics (eBook)

Harriet I. Flower (Autor)

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2011
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3116-6 (ISBN)

Infos

From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century BC--has profoundly shaped how Roman history is understood, how the ultimate failure of Roman republicanism is explained, and how republicanism itself is defined. In Roman Republics, Harriet Flower argues for a completely new interpretation of republican chronology. Radically challenging the traditional picture of a single monolithic republic, she argues that there were multiple republics, each with its own clearly distinguishable strengths and weaknesses. While classicists have long recognized that the Roman Republic changed and evolved over time, Flower is the first to mount a serious argument against the idea of republican continuity that has been fundamental to modern historical study. By showing that the Romans created a series of republics, she reveals that there was much more change--and much less continuity--over the republican period than has previously been assumed. In clear and elegant prose, Roman Republics provides not only a reevaluation of one of the most important periods in western history but also a brief yet nuanced survey of Roman political life from archaic times to the end of the republican era.

Autor

Harriet I. Flower is professor of classics at Princeton University. She is the author of The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture and Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture, and she is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 49 BC • Annales maximi • assassination • ballot • battle of actium • Bibliography • Calendar reform • Career • Cato the Elder • Cimbri • city-state • Cognomen • Conflict of the Orders • Constitution • Criticism • Dictatorship • Eastern Mediterranean • Election • First Triumvirate • foreign policy • Gaius Gracchus • Gaius Marius • Greeks • hegemony • Hellenistic period • Historiography • impunity • Italians • Jugurtha • Late Antiquity • Latin Literature • Law court (ancient Athens) • Legislation • Literature • livy • Mamilia (gens) • March on Rome • Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir) • Memoir • Military Service • Mithridates VI of Pontus • mos maiorum • narrative • Numantine War • Numidia • Oligarchy • Optimates • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Periodization • plebs • political alliance • political climate • Political culture • Political family • Political Party • political revolution • political structure • Political violence • Politician • Politics • Polybius • Pomerium • pontifex maximus • praetor • Precedent • Princeton University • Principate • Proscription • quaestor • Republic • Republicanism • rhetoric • Roman Army • roman citizenship • Roman consul • Roman dictator • roman governor • Roman historiography • Roman magistrate • roman republic • Rostra • school of thought • Scipio Aemilianus • second punic war • secret ballot • Sempronius Asellio • Sempronius Gracchus • Suetonius • Suffrage • Sulla • Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus • Teutons • Tiberius Gracchus • Tribune • Tribune of the Plebs • Triumvirate • unrest • Voting • warfare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3116-4 / 1400831164
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3116-6 / 9781400831166