Plebs And Politics In The Late Roman Republic

Author : Henrik Mouritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139428668

Get Book

Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic by Henrik Mouritsen Pdf

Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic analyses the political role of the masses in a profoundly aristocratic society. Constitutionally the populus Romanus wielded almost unlimited powers, controlling legislation and the election of officials, a fact which has inspired 'democratic' readings of the Roman republic. In this book a distinction is drawn between the formal powers of the Roman people and the practical realization of these powers. The question is approached from a quantitative as well as a qualitative perspective, asking how large these crowds were, and how their size affected their social composition. Building on those investigations, the different types of meetings and assemblies are analysed. The result is a picture of the place of the masses in the running of the Roman state, which challenges the 'democratic' interpretation, and presents a society riven by social conflicts and a widening gap between rich and poor.

Author : Henrik Mouritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031883

Get Book

Politics in the Roman Republic by Henrik Mouritsen Pdf

A very readable introduction exploring much-contested issues and debates, and providing an original synthesis of this important topic.

Author : Valentina Arena
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139620161

Get Book

Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic by Valentina Arena Pdf

This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on the means allowing for the preservation and the loss of libertas. Considering the interplay of these traditions in the political debates of the first century BC, Dr Arena offers a significant reinterpretation of the political struggles of the time as well as a radical reappraisal of the role played by the idea of liberty in the practice of politics. She argues that, as a result of its uses in rhetorical debates, libertas underwent a form of conceptual change at the end of the Republic and came to legitimise a new course of politics, which led progressively to the transformation of the whole political system.

Author : Henrik Mouritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009180658

Get Book

The Roman Elite and the End of the Republic by Henrik Mouritsen Pdf

Presents a new understanding of the social and political world of the late republic and the reasons for its fall.

Author : Cristina Rosillo-López
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107145078

Get Book

Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic by Cristina Rosillo-López Pdf

This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in Late Republican Rome as a part of informal politics. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the elite and the people through various means, such as rumours, gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti. It also proposes the existence of a public sphere in Late Republican Rome and analyses public opinion in that time as a system of control. By applying the spatial turn to politics, it becomes possible to study sociability and informal meetings where public opinion circulated. What emerges is a wider concept of the political participation of the people, not just restricted to voting or participating in the assemblies.

Author : Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444339659

Get Book

A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic by Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles Pdf

An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.

Author : T. P. Wiseman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191617010

Get Book

Remembering the Roman People by T. P. Wiseman Pdf

In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil war.

Author : Paul J.J. Vanderbroeck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004526570

Get Book

Popular Leadership and Collective Behavior in the Late Roman Republic (ca. 80 - 50 B.C.) by Paul J.J. Vanderbroeck Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383325

Get Book

Late Republican Rome, 88–31 BC by Anonim Pdf

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series features offers a generous selection of primary texts on Late Republican Rome (88-31 BC), with accompanying maps, a glossary and note on the sources, concordances and appendices. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources as well as some key inscriptions, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.

Author : Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521823277

Get Book

Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic by Robert Morstein-Marx Pdf

This book highlights the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. Against the background of the current debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. It is the first work to analyze the ideology of Republican mass oratory and to situate its rhetoric fully within the institutional and historical context of the public meetings (contiones) in which these speeches were heard. Examples of contional orations, drawn chiefly from Cicero and Sallust, are subjected to an analysis that is influenced by contemporary political theory and empirical studies of public opinion and the media, rooted in a detailed examination of key events and institutional structures, and illuminated by a vivid sense of the urban space in which the contio was set.

Author : J. Alison Rosenblitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472580603

Get Book

Rome after Sulla by J. Alison Rosenblitt Pdf

Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original analysis of key sources including Cicero's pro Roscio, Appian, the Livian tradition, and Sallust's Historiae. Arguing that Sulla's settlement was never stable, Rome after Sulla emphasises the uncertainty and fear felt by contemporaries and the problems caused in Rome by consciousness of the injustices of the Sullan settlement and its lack of moral legitimacy. The book argues that the events and the unresolved traumas of the first civil war of the Roman republic triggered profound changes in Roman political culture, to which Sallust's magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is our best guide. An in-depth exploration of a new, more Sallust-centred vision of the late republic contributes to the historical picture not only of the legacy of Sulla, but also of Caesar and of Rome's move from republic to autocratic rule. The book studies a society grappling with a question broader than its own times: what is the price of stability?

Author : Federico Santangelo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383356

Get Book

Late Republican Rome, 88–31 BC by Federico Santangelo Pdf

A sourcebook on Late Republican Rome (88-31 BC), with a range of translated primary texts to support ancient history students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004350847

Get Book

Political Communication in the Roman World by Anonim Pdf

This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented? What mechanisms made political communication successful or unsuccessful?

Author : Henriette van der Blom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107051935

Get Book

Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic by Henriette van der Blom Pdf

Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic is a pioneering investigation into the role of oratory in Roman Republican politics.

Author : Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139449878

Get Book

Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic by Robert Morstein-Marx Pdf

This book highlights the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. Against the background of the debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. The book analyses the ideology of Republican mass oratory and situates its rhetoric fully within the institutional and historical context of the public meetings (contiones) in which these speeches were heard. Examples of contional orations, drawn chiefly from Cicero and Sallust, are subjected to an analysis that is influenced by contemporary political theory and empirical studies of public opinion and the media, rooted in a detailed examination of key events and institutional structures, and illuminated by a vivid sense of the urban space in which the contio was set.