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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:
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.
Valentina Arena is Professor of Ancient History at University College London, UK. Her work focuses on the history of Roman politics, ancient political thought, and the wider intellectual landscape of the Roman Republic. She is the author of Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the late Roman Republic and the editor of Liberty: an Ancient Concept for the Contemporary World. She has co-edited volumes on Varro and the antiquarian tradition and is currently directing the ERC funded project Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians.
Jonathan Prag is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He works on the history of the Roman Republic, ancient Sicily, epigraphy and digital methods. He has previously co-edited The Hellenistic West and A Handbook to Petronius. He has published extensively on ancient Sicily where he also co-directs an archaeological excavation. He directs the I.Sicily epigraphic corpus (http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk).
Notes on Editors xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Abbreviations xx
Introduction 1Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag
1 Political Culture: Career of a Concept 4Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Part I Modern Reading 21
2 Machiavelli's Roman Republic 25Ryan K. Balot and Nathaniel K. Gilmore
3 The Roman Republic and the English Republic 40Rachel Foxley
4 Liberty, Rights and Virtue: The Roman Republic in Eighteenth-Century France 52Christopher Hamel
5 A Roman Revolution: Classical Republicanism in the Creation of the American Republic 68Eran Shalev
6 Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome and Its Political and Intellectual Context 81Stefan Rebenich
7 The Political Culture of the Republic since Syme's The Roman Revolution: A Story of a Debate 93Alexander Yakobson
Part II Ancient Interpreters 107
8 Polybius and Roman Political Culture 111Chiara Carsana
9 Cicero: In and Above the Republic's Political Culture 125Walter Nicgorski
10 Sallust 136J. Alison Rosenblitt
11 Augustan Republics: Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Politics of the Past 146Andrew Gallia
12 Plutarch's Evaluation of Roman Politics and Political Figures 159Mark Beck
13 Appian, Cassius Dio and the Roman Republic 174John Rich
Part III Institutionalised Loci 189
14 The Census 193Guido Clemente
15 The Senate 206Marianne Coudry
16 Roman Political Assemblies 220Tim Cornell
17 Armies and Political Culture 236Nathan Rosenstein
18 Imperator and Politician: The Consul as the Highest Magistrate of the Republic 248Francisco Pina Polo
19 The Tribunate of the Plebs: Between Compromise and Revolution 260Amy Russell
20 Priests 274Jörg Rüpke
21 Other Magistrates, Officials and Apparitores 285E.J. Kondratieff
Part IV Political Actors 303
22 The Civis 307Andrea Raggi
23 Romans, Latins and Allies 318Edward Bispham
24 Peregrini/Nationes Exterae: Foreigners and the Political Culture of the Roman Republic 332Lisa Pilar Eberle
25 Republican Elites: Patricians, Nobiles, Senators and Equestrians 347Hans Beck
26 Matronae and Politics in Republican Rome 362Francesca Rohr Vio
27 On Freedom and Citizenship: Freedmen as Agents and Metaphors of Roman Political Culture 374Pedro López Barja de Quiroga
Part V Values, Rituals and Political Discourse 387
28 Roman Republican Political Culture: Values and Ideology 391Robert Morstein-Marx
29 From Patronage to Violence and Bribery: Towards a New Political Culture 408Antonio Duplá-Ansuategui
30 The Political Culture of the Plebs 422Jerry Toner
31 The Law and the Courts in Roman Political Culture 433Jean-Michel David
32 Rhetoric and Roman Political Culture 446Catherine Steel
33 Religion and Rituals in Republican Rome 455Francisco Marco Simón
34 Myth and Theatre 470Uwe Walter
35 Imagery and Space 484Peter J. Holliday
Part VI Politics in Action - Case Studies 505
36 The Political Culture of Rome in 218 - 212 bce 509Bernhard Linke
37 Roman Political Culture in 169 bce 524John A. North
38 133 bce: Politics in a Time of Challenge and Crisis 537J. Lea Beness and Tom Hillard
39 88 bce 555W. Jeffrey Tatum
40 The Year 52 bce 568Egon Flaig
Index 583
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