Politics and Society in Imperial Rome

by Winterling, Aloys

• ISBN13: 9781405179690
• ISBN10: 1405179694
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era. Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society Includes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier

Author Biography

Aloys Winterling is Professor for Ancient History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was previously Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a New Interpretation of Imperial Rome	p. 1
Paradoxical Structures	p. 7
"State," "Society," and Political Integration	p. 9
Friendship and Patron-Client Relations	p. 34
"Public" and "Private"	p. 58
Two Cases in Point	p. 77
A Court without "State." The aula Caesaris	p. 79
Meaningful Madness. The Emperor Caligula	p. 103
Academic Approaches	p. 121
Theodor Mommsen's Theory of "Dyarchia"	p. 123
Christian Meier's "Crisis without Alternative" in Ancient Rome	p. 141
Editorial Note	p. 164
Index	p. 166
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