Harvard University Press, 1940. — 152 p. Limiting himself to the history of the Roman Republic down to the Battle of Actium (31 BC), F.E. Adcock here gives an illuminating and interesting account of the Roman art of war. The Roman, he maintains, was half a soldier from the start, and he could endure a discipline which soon produced the other half. To him war was not romantic...
Teaching Company Press, 2018. — 230 p. The Roman Republic is one of the most breathtaking civilizations in world history. Between roughly 500 B.C.E. to the turn of the millennium, a modest city-state developed an innovative system of government and expanded into far-flung territories. This powerful civilization inspired America’s founding fathers, gifted us a blueprint for...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 280 p. A history of the Roman Republic within the wider Mediterranean world, focusing on 330 to 30 BCE. Broad in scope, this book uniquely considers the history of the Roman Republic in tandem with the rich histories of the Hellenistic kingdoms and city-states that endured after the death of Alexander the Great. It provides students with a full picture...
London ; New York: Routledge, 2020. — 348 p. : 6 b/w illus. — (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies Series). This volume addresses the fundamental importance of the army, warfare, and military service to the development of both the Roman Republic and wider Italic society in the second half of the first millennium BC. It brings together emerging and established scholars in...
Blackwell, 1972. — 170 p. This book is a classic, a rich and rewarding study of an essential aspect of Roman imperialism - the way that almost all aspects of Rome's administration was supported by private enterprise, from transporting grain to feeding armies to building aqueducts to collecting taxes and much more. Anyone with a serious interest in Roman history will find it...
Brill, 2020. — xii + 269 p. — (Impact of Empire, Vol. 37). Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety of different aspects – legal, religious,...
Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. – 387 p. ISBN: 978-1-107-00154-1 Hardback The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic’s highest office – to be sure, from different perspectives and with differing expectations. While the former aspired to the consulate as the...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 387 p. The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic’s highest office – to be sure, from different perspectives and with differing expectations. While the former aspired to the consulate as the defining magistracy of their social status, the latter...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 365 p. This 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...
Routledge, 2012. — 419 p. This volume examines the development, structure and role of education from the third century B.C to the time of Trajan, a period which saw great changes in Roman society. When originally published it was the first complete review of the subject for half a century and was based on a new collection and analysis of ancient source material. The book is...
Macmillan Company, 1909. — 548 p. In opposition to Mommsen, the author believes that both patricians and plebeians took part in the legislative assemblies, and that political class distinctions at Rome arose from economic causes. His argument is well-founded and very important. The rest of the book gives a very accurate and full description of the activities and functions of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 392 p. The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year struggle for the western Mediterranean. Breaching the walls of their great enemy, Carthage, Roman troops slaughtered countless citizens, enslaved those who survived, and leveled the 700-year-old city. That same year in the east, Rome destroyed Corinth and...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 392 p. The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year struggle for the western Mediterranean. Breaching the walls of their great enemy, Carthage, Roman troops slaughtered countless citizens, enslaved those who survived, and leveled the 700-year-old city. That same year in the east, Rome destroyed Corinth and...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 990 p. Brennan's book surveys the history of the Roman praetorship, which was one of the most enduring Roman political institutions, occupying the practical center of Roman Republican administrative life for over three centuries. The study addresses political, social, military and legal history, as well as Roman religion. Volume I begins with a...
The American Philological Association, 1960. — 96 p. This is one of those extremely valuable resources that one must have if they want an indepth resource of magistrates that held any office within the cursus honorum and any of the tribunal positions. It provides detailed information on the official that held office, or those magistrates whose imperium was extended and the...
American Philological Association, 1952. — 647 p. The second volume of the reference book by the American historian details the annual appointments (elections) to all top administrative and military positions in the late Roman Republic from 99 to 31 BC. (until the creation of the Roman Empire by Caesar Augustus). In this book, in chronological order, the names of the chosen...
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995. — 207 p. Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 272 p. Although a great deal of historical work has been done in the past decade on Roman triumphs, defeats and their place in Roman culture have been relatively neglected. Why should we investigate the defeats of a society that almost never lost a war? In Triumph in Defeat , Jessica H. Clark answers this question by showing what responses to...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 250 p. In recent years, Roman political thought has attracted increased attention as intellectual historians and political theorists have explored the influence of the Roman republic on major thinkers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Held up as a "third way" between liberalism and communitarianism, neo-Roman republicanism promises...
2nd edition. — Harvard University Press, 1992. — 240 p. Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean. The loyalty of these marauding heroes, and of the Roman population as a whole, to their...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 678 p. In the Roman social hierarchy, the equestrian order stood second only to the senatorial aristocracy in status and prestige. Throughout more than a thousand years of Roman history, equestrians played prominent roles in the Roman government, army, and society as cavalrymen, officers, businessmen, tax collectors, jurors, administrators,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 376 p. — ISBN: 9781107094314. Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics (c.509–44 BCE). At the start of the period, architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the political system; by the end, buildings were so...
Routledge, 2015. — 854 p. In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus. Dillon and Garland have also included more extensive late Republican and Augustan sources on social developments, as well as further information on the...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2015. — 878 p. In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus. Dillon and Garland have also included more extensive late Republican and Augustan sources on social developments, as well as further...
Routledge, 2021. — 818 p. This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14. Interspersed through the discussion of the political history of the period are crucial...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 336 p. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 336 p. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is...
University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 432 p. In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Drogula argues, provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law but rather a dynamic set of ideas shaped by...
University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 432 p. In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Drogula argues, provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law but rather a dynamic set of ideas shaped by...
PublicAffairs, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1610397215, ISBN13: 978-1610397216. The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding...
Herodotus Press, 2016. — 371 p. THE ROMAN EMPIRE STANDS as the greatest political achievement in the history of Western civilization. From its humble beginnings as a tiny kingdom in central Italy, Rome grew to envelope the entire Mediterranean until it ruled an empire that stretched from the Atlantic to Syria and from the Sahara to Scotland. Its enduring legacy continues to...
Public Affairs, 2017. — 308 p. The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings. Through the centuries, Rome's model of cooperative and participatory government remained...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 337 p. Stephen L. Dyson finds in the experience of the Republic the origins of Roman frontier policy and methods of border control as practiced under the Empire. Focusing on the western provinces during the Republic, he demonstrates the ways in which Roman society, like that of the United States, was shaped by its own frontier. Originally...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 349 p. The rise and fall of city patrons in the Greek East is linked to the fundamental changes that took place during the fall of the Republic and the transition to the Principate. This discursive treatment of the origins, nature, and decline of this type of patronage, and its place in Roman practice as a whole, is supplemented by a reference...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 405 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-80794-4. " The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic " examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509 to 49 BC. The key development of the republican period was Rome's rise from a small city to a wealthy metropolis, which served as the international capital of an extensive Mediterranean empire....
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 221 p. 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...
University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — xxiv + 400 p. Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilation of portraits and public inscriptions. Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this...
2 edition — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 518 p. "The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic" examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509 to 49 BC. The key development of the republican period was Rome's rise from a small city to a wealthy metropolis, which served as the international capital of an extensive Mediterranean empire. These centuries...
2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 518 p. "The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic" examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509 to 49 BC. The key development of the republican period was Rome's rise from a small city to a wealthy metropolis, which served as the international capital of an extensive Mediterranean empire. These centuries...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 284 p. Mark Forman explores the extent to which Paul's concept of 'inheritance' in Romans, and its associated imagery, logic and arguments, served to evoke socio-political expectations that were different to those which prevailed in contemporary Roman imperial discourse. Forman explores how Paul deploys the idea of inheritance in Romans and...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — xiv + 289 p. — (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome). In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state. This is especially true in terms of understanding how the...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 215 p. Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was Not a Crime describes a legal...
Routledge, 2021. — 216 p. This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations in the Senate, at social gatherings, and on military...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xii + 307 p. This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. By employing a sophisticated methodology based upon comparative evidence and contemporary economic theory, the author develops interlocking arguments about the relationship between...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 316 p. 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. Partisan clashes over the political sphere, thus conceived, formed an important part of this crisis, though have received relatively little attention to date,...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 232 p. 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...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 258 p. During the period between the end of the Hannibalic War and Octavian's decisive victory in the battle of Actium in 31 BC, the Italian peninsula gradually evolved as the heartland of the Roman Empire as it was expanding across the Mediterranean. The international team of contributors to this book elucidates different aspects of the social,...
Routledge, 2020. — 142 p. Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise. However, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and archaeological evidence to examine how farmers – from...
Routledge, 2020. — 142 p. Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise. However, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and archaeological evidence to examine how farmers – from...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 315 p. Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies. Given the remarkable concentration of consumers in ancient Rome, the vast majority of which were entirely reliant on the market for survival, a functioning...
Gorgias Press, 2008. — 170 p. The consilium, or advisory council, played an important role in the everyday activities of the Roman magistrate in his role as military commander. This work is an in-depth look at the commander's consilium from its first depicted appearances in the accounts of the legendary period to 31 BC. The concilium adapted to meet changing needs and serves to...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 271 p. Roman senators and equestrians were always vulnerable to prosecution for their official conduct, especially since politically motivated accusations were common. When charged with a crime in Republican Rome, such men had a choice concerning their fate. They could either remain in Rome and face possible conviction and punishment, or go...
Routledge, 1996. — 288 p. This work gives students of all levels access to a comprehensive collection of primary sources on the early history of Italy, from the early expansion of Roman power to the first emmergence of Italy as a unified and cultural political unit. The sources, presented in translation, cover the Roman conquest of Italy, the mechanisms used by Rome to govern...
Routledge, 1993. — 272 p. The history of the Greek cities of Italy during the period of Roman conquest and under Roman rule form a fascinating case study of the processes of Roman expansion and assimilation and of Greek reactions to the presence of Rome. This book reassesses the role of Magna Graecia in Roman Italy and illuminates the mechanisms of Roman control and the process...
Franz Steiner, 2011. Kurztext Was passiert, wenn Normen im Widerspruch zueinander stehen? Christoph Lundgreen schlägt hier mit Hilfe eines theoriegeleiteten Ansatzes, der Regelkonzeptionen verschiedener Disziplinen berücksichtigt, eine neue Lesart des "Staatsrechts" der römischen Republik vor. Er untersucht dabei Konfliktfälle aus den Bereichen Wahlen, Provinzvergabe,...
Edwin Mellen Press, 2013. — 359 p. This book presents a new translation of the classical Byzantine writer's work about ancient Magistrates of the Roman State. The objective of this edition is textual and translational in nature. Since the works of Lydus are replete with Latin vocabulary, this book serves to bring it into English. The translation is faithful to the original and...
Mazda Publishers, 2007. — 212 p. Tigranes II (95-55 B.C.), known in Armenian historiography as Tigranes the Great, is the sole Armenian monarch who not only succeeded in unifying all the lands inhabited by the Armenians, but extended Armenian rule into Syria and northwestern Iran. In the first century B.C. he created an Armenian empire which lasted for some two decades, taking...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 208 p. The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic, the members of the Fabius clan were, more often than not, the hammers that forged the empire. Few families contributed more to the survival and success of the Republic and for so many centuries. Few...
Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1966. — 244 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places. Vol. 50). "Whatever you write about Republican Rome," a candid friend has remarked, "I'm looking at the pictures first." Good — I should hate to have the pictures left to the last. But I would prefer to find them also consulted along with the text, for that is how the book was written. What can one...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 481 p. Recent studies of ancient Roman masculinities have concentrated on the private aspects of the subject, particularly sexuality, and have drawn conclusions from a narrow field of reference, usually rhetorical practice. In contrast, this book examines the public and the most important aspect of Roman masculinity: Manliness as represented...
Princeton University Press, 1967. — xvi + 227 p. This book reconstructs the pre-Julian calendar of Rome on the basis of epigraphical and literary evidence, and analyzes its relation to the solar and lunar years. Mrs. Michels shows how the varied contents of the calendar were related to the political as well as to the religious life of Rome of the first century B.C. She traces...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 264 p. The Aventine - one of Rome’s canonical seven hills - has long been identified as the city’s plebeian district, which housed the lower orders of society and served as the political headquarters, religious citadel, and social bastion of those seeking radical reform of the Republican constitution. Lisa Marie Mignone challenges the...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — xv + 243 p. The Aventine — one of Rome’s canonical seven hills — has long been identified as the city’s plebeian district, which housed the lower orders of society and served as the political headquarters, religious citadel, and social bastion of those seeking radical reform of the Republican constitution. Lisa Marie Mignone challenges the...
London: University Press of New England, 2002. — 220 p. ISBN: 1-58465-198-9 (cloth: alk. paper) – ISBN: 1-58465-199-7 (pbk.: alk. paper). It is a fact that the very long-lived Roman Republic has consistently played a surprisingly slight role in political theory and discussions about the nature of democracy, forms of government, and other matters, particularly when compared to...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 214 p. The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political culture. This engaging book examines all these issues afresh, and presents an...
Batsford Academic and Educational, 1980. — 447 p. Civitas: The citizen and his city. Census: The integrated citizen. Militia: The army and the citizen. Arma Et Toga: The army and the body politic. Miles Improbus: Rome and her army. Aerarium: The citizen and the treasury. Comitia: The citizen and politics. Libertas: The citizen and the authorities. Popularitas: The rise of...
Roma, Bari; Carocci editore, 2014. — 248 p. — ISBN 978-88- 430-3617-2. Le istituzioni di Roma antica , soleva dire Catone il Censore, si sono formate non ad opera di un singolo legislatore, una volta per tutte, ma ad opera di molti uomini nell'arco di più secoli. L'assioma illustra nel modo migliore il particolare legame a Roma fra istituzioni e società nel tempo. Di questo...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 386 p. The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship. The book...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 386 p. The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship. The book...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 390 p. In modern times there have been studies of the Roman Republican institutions as a whole as well as in-depth analyses of the senate, the popular assemblies, the tribunate of the plebs, the aedileship, the praetorship and the censorship. However, the consulship, the highest magistracy of the Roman Republic, has not received the same...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 390 p. In modern times there have been studies of the Roman Republican institutions as a whole as well as in-depth analyses of the senate, the popular assemblies, the tribunate of the plebs, the aedileship, the praetorship and the censorship. However, the consulship, the highest magistracy of the Roman Republic, has not received the same...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2012. – 415 p. – (Mnemosyne Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity. Vol. 342). ISSN: 0169-8958. ISBN: 978-90-04-22911-2 (hardback) ISBN: 978-90-04-22960-0 (e-book) This volume is the result of a conference, held at Manchester in July 2010, on processes of integration and identity formation in the Roman Republic. This book focuses...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 737 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-0217-9. This Companion provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Roman Republican history as it is currently practiced. - Highlights recent developments, including archaeological discoveries, fresh approaches to textual sources, and the opening up...
Brill, 2017. — 293 p. This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws upon social sciences and the current trend for the historical study of political communication. The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented?...
Milano: Societa editrice libraria 1912. — VII, 522 p. A chronological analytical list of Roman laws of the republican age with all pertinent sources, still insuperable.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 328 p. In ‘Religion in Republican Rome’ Roman religion is considered largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 245 p. Taking public space as her starting point, Amy Russell offers a fresh analysis of the ever-fluid public/private divide in Republican Rome. Built on the ‘spatial turn’ in Roman studies and incorporating textual and archaeological evidence, this book uncovers a rich variety of urban spaces. No space in Rome was solely or fully public....
Routledge, 2013. — 317 p. The Republican Roman Army assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the Roman experience of war. The author has carefully selected and translated key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them with comprehensive commentaries and essays. This...
Routledge, 2013. — 317 p. The Republican Roman Army assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the Roman experience of war. The author has carefully selected and translated key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them with comprehensive commentaries and essays. This...
Brill, 2017. — 554 p. Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome: Omnium Annalium Monumenta is a major collection of essays by distinguished authors on the development of Roman Republican historiography.
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2001. — 212 p. The sovereignty of the populus Romanus was, at least in theory, very foundation of the republican constitution. Exactly to what extent this notion was more than a mere ideological conception is still a matter for debate, but it remains an indisputable fact that the popular vote was essential to the operation of the Roman state. Only...
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2007. – 323 p. – (Impact of Empire. Vol. 8). ISSN: 1572-0500. ISBN: 978-90-04-16386-7 This book is a study of Sulla’s policies in Italy and in the Greek East. Its main aim is to show how Sulla revived Rome's alliances with the local elites at a critical moment for the survival of her Mediterranean hegemony. The discussion calls into play a wide range of...
Franz Steiner, 1996. Die Arbeit behandelt ein Schluesselproblem der sp tantiken Sozialgeschichte: Was war der sp tantike Senatsadel? Welchen Typus von Adel repr sentiert er? Was konstituiert diesen Adel als Stand ? Durch einen sozial- und mentalit tsgeschichtlichen Ansatz, der Realit ten und Mentalit ten in den Blick nimmt, wird der sp tantike Senatsadel als Stand erfa t....
Routledge, 2012. — 520 p. The city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great civilizations of Europe and the Near East. H.H. Scullard’s definitive and highly acclaimed study reveals the peculiar genius of the Roman people, their predilection for law and order and their powers of organization and administration, all of which...
Thames and Hudson, 1981. – 288 p. Discusses Roman religious ideas and practices (including sacrifice, prayer, purification and vows) , giving brief outlines of secular activities such as triumphs and public funerals, and the Circus games, originally held in honour of certain gods. Also shows worship to the gods and goddesses fell on certain days and describes in detail...
Fourth Edition. — London; New York: Routledge, 2003. — 552 p. — ISBN: 978-0415305044. The city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great civilizations of Europe and the Near East. H.H. Scullard’s definitive and highly acclaimed study reveals the peculiar genius of the Roman people, their predilection for law and order and...
Routledge, 2011. — 410 p. It explores the decline and fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. In superbly clear style, Scullard brings vividly to life Gracchi's attempts at reform, the rise. and fall of Marius and Sulfa, Pompey and Caesar, society and culture in the late Roman Republic, the Augustan Principate, Tiberius and...
Latomus: Revue d’études Latines, 1975. — 512 p. Property. Sources of Income. Financial Activities. Expenditure. The Economic Characteristics of the Senatorial Class. Senatores Principes Partes. Economic Conditions and Political Conduct. Senatores versus Equites. Epilogue. Tables.
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 416 p. Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome brings together nineteen international contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. Speech was an integral part of decision-making in Republican Rome, and oratory was part of the education of every member of the elite. Yet no complete...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 248 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) In the first study of fiscal sociology in the Roman Republic, James Tan argues that much of Roman politics was defined by changes in the fiscal system. Tan offers a new conception of the Roman Republic by showing that imperial profits freed the elite from dependence on citizen taxes" "Rome's wars...
Manchester University Press, 1966. — 208 p. The West. The scale of the movement. The nature of the Conventus Civium Romanorum. The beginning of settlement in the second century. The settlers in the age of upheaval (c. 130 B.C.-30 B.C.). The western settlers and Roman politics. The East. Italy and the east. Settlement before the first Mithridatic War. The revolutionary age...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 185 p. From the Old Testament to Elizabethan England, luxury has been morally condemned. In Rome, sumptuary laws (laws controlling consumption) seemed the only weapon to defeat ?hydra-like luxury?, the terrible monster that was weakening even the strongest citizens.The first Roman sumptuary law, the "Lex Appia," declared that no woman could possess...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 384 p. The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 340 p. Staging the World is an illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession in its capacity as spectacle and performance. Ida Ostenberg analyses how Rome presented and perceived the defeated on parade. Spoils, captives, and representations are the objects, and the basic questions to be asked concern both contents and context: What was...
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