Roman Public Life
Author : Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :
Author : Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :
Author : A. H. J. Greenidge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387096976
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : A.H.J. Greenidge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368923331
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0465093825
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0812970586
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus–and that he himself later remade–was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history–Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra–whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.
Author : John R. Patterson
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : History
ISBN :
This text looks at the Roman political system of 200-50 BC: how it worked, the influence of the ordinary Romans, the voter and political persuasion.
Author : William Emerton Heitland
Publisher :
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1909
Category : History
ISBN :
This book emphasizes the history and lives of politicians and public servants in the Roman Republic and later Empire. The text includes information on the founding of Rome, the development of the constitution and the overall development of the Roman government over time.
Author : Cristina Rosillo-López
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 110850955X
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 : Frank Frost Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Rome
ISBN :
Author : Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2010-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0691140383
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.