A Companion to the Roman Republic

by Rosenstein, Nathan; Morstein-Marx, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781405102179
• ISBN10: 1405102179
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Companion provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Roman republican history as it is currently practiced. The volume takes account of recent developments that have enriched our picture of the Republic. These include the continuing archaeological exploration of Italy, increasingly sophisticated approaches to textual sources, and the opening up of new areas of historical study and debate such as the nature of the republican political system, Roman identity formation, representation of the body, collective memory, and demography and social structure. At the same time, the book retains the drama of the Republicrs"s rise and fall. The Companion is divided into three parts. The opening section emphasizes both the evidence of texts and physical remains, and the models and assumptions that scholars bring to these artifacts. This section includes coverage of the role played by the physical geography and environment of Italy. The second part offers a compact but detailed narrative of military and political developments from the birth of Rome through to the death of Julius Caesar; while the third and longest part highlights recent research and current controversies in the field.

Author Biography

Nathan Rosenstein is Professor of History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Imperatores Victi (1990) and Rome at War (2004), and coeditor of War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (2001).

Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East (1995) and Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic (2004).

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. x
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Notes on Contributors	p. xiv
Maps	p. xix
Abbreviations	p. xxvii
Preface	p. xxviii
Introductory	p. 1
Methods, Models, and Historiography	p. 3
Literary Sources	p. 29
Epigraphy and Numismatics	p. 51
The Topography and Archaeology of Republican Rome	p. 81
The Physical Geography and Environment of Republican Italy	p. 102
Narrative	p. 123
Between Myth and History: Rome's Rise from Village to Empire (the Eighth Century to 264)	p. 125
Mediterranean Empire (264-134)	p. 147
From the Gracchi to the First Civil War (133-70)	p. 167
The Final Crisis (69-44)	p. 190
Civic Structures	p. 213
Communicating with the Gods	p. 215
Law in the Roman Republic	p. 236
The Constitution of the Roman Republic	p. 256
Army and Society	p. 278
Society	p. 297
Social Structure and Demography	p. 299
Finding Roman Women	p. 324
Political Culture	p. 343
The City of Rome	p. 345
Aristocratic Values	p. 365
Popular Power in the Roman Republic	p. 383
Patronage	p. 401
Rhetoric and Public Life	p. 421
The Republican Body	p. 439
The Creation of a Roman Identity	p. 457
Romans and Others	p. 459
History and Collective Memory in the Middle Republic	p. 478
Art and Architecture in the Roman Republic	p. 496
Literature	p. 543
Controversies	p. 565
Conceptualizing Roman Imperial Expansion under the Republic: An Introduction	p. 567
The Economy: Agrarian Change During the Second Century	p. 590
Rome and Italy	p. 606
The Transformation of the Republic	p. 625
Bibliography	p. 638
Index	p. 695
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