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Author: Catalina Balmaceda
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9004441697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLibertas and Res Publica examines two key concepts of Western political thinking: freedom and republic. Contributors address important new questions on the principles of, and essential connection between res publica and libertas in Roman thought and Republican history.
Author: Valentina Arena
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1107028175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadical reappraisal of the political struggles of the late Roman Republic through a study of the conflicting uses of libertas.
Author: Louise Lovelace Hodgson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0198777388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Res Publica and the Roman Republic' explores the political crisis at the end of the Roman Republic through the changing perceptions of the political sphere itself, the res publica. The volume seeks to show how the rhetoric surrounding the latter mirrors the changes in the Roman political landscape throughout this period.
Author: Valentina Arena
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 1444339656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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: Henrik Mouritsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1107031885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA very readable introduction exploring much-contested issues and debates, and providing an original synthesis of this important topic.
Author: Jonathan Zarecki
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 178093470X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe resurgence of interest in Cicero's political philosophy in the last twenty years demands a re-evaluation of Cicero's ideal statesman and its relationship not only to Cicero's political theory but also to his practical politics. Jonathan Zarecki proposes three original arguments: firstly, that by the publication of his De Republica in 51 BC Cicero accepted that some sort of return to monarchy was inevitable. Secondly, that Cicero created his model of the ideal statesman as part of an attempt to reconcile the mixed constitution of Rome's past with his belief in the inevitable return of sole-person rule. Thirdly, that the ideal statesman was the primary construct against which Cicero viewed the political and military activities of Pompey, Caesar and Antony, and himself.
Author: Henriette van der Blom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-17
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1108621716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological contexts. The focus throughout is on the interaction between argument, speaker, delivery and action. The chapters consider how speeches acted alongside other factors - such as the identity of the speaker, his alliances, the deployment of invective against opponents, physical location and appearance of other members of the audience, and non-rhetorical threats or incentives - to affect the beliefs and behaviour of the audience. Together they offer a range of approaches to these issues and bring attention back to the content of public speech in Republican Rome as well as its form and occurrence. The book will be of interest not only to ancient historians, but also to those working on ancient oratory and to historians and political theorists working on public speech.
Author: Catalina Balmaceda
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-10-06
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1469635135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
Author: Tom Strunk
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 047213020X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Tacitus' understanding of political liberty through his portrayals of Roman emperors and senators
Author: Tom Stevenson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1317597532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic provides an accessible introduction to Caesar’s life and public career. It outlines the main phases of his career with reference to prominent social and political concepts of the time. This approach helps to explain his aims, ideals, and motives as rooted in tradition, and demonstrates that Caesar’s rise to power owed much to broad historical processes of the late Republican period, a view that contrasts with the long-held idea that he sought to become Rome’s king from an early age. This is an essential undergraduate introduction to this fascinating figure, and to his role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire.
