Description |
1 online resource (393 p.) |
Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- A Community in Transition -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Whence and Whither? -- 2. Climate Change and Rome's Changing Republic -- 3. The Agrarian Policy of the Senate between Hannibal and the Gracchi -- 4. The Political Culture of Coinage: The Introduction and Development of the Denarius System -- 5. Public Buildings and Urban Landscape: A View from the Riverfront -- 6. Goodbye to All That: The Roman Citizen Militia after the Great Wars |
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7. The Administration of the Imperium Romanum in the Second Century bce -- 8. Legislation, Politics, and Social Change in the Early Second Century bce -- 9. Interactions between Tribunes and Senate -- 10. The Gentes Maiores and Aristocratic Competition in Rome (200-​134 bce) -- 11. The Arrival of Eloquence? The Changing Parameters of Public Speech in the Second Century -- 12. Beyond Conservatism: Charting Roman Religion between Hannibal and Scipio Nasica -- 13. Epilogue-​Periodization in Perspective: Further Thoughts about the Second Century bce -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
Summary |
The Roman Republic has become a huge interest among both specialized readers and the general public. This volume addresses the period in which the Republic reached its peak, and covers a number of key themes in the history of the Roman polity during the Middle Republic, such as: political competition, legal practice, and economic change. Its chapters are the result of a close and up-to-date discussion among established scholars from Europe, the UK, the USA, and Australia |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115116
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Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Santangelo, Federico
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ISBN |
0197655254 |
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9780197655252 |
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