ISBN: 9781400834907

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 as… Mehr…

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. Holkeskamp 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. Holkeskamp 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. Holkeskamp 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.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.; PDF; History & Transport > Humanities > General & world history, Princeton University Press<

ISBN: 9781400834907

Princeton University Press Roman Ancient History Aristocracy; Politics; Political culture; Symbolic capital; Praetor; Institution; Political class; Roman Republic; Patrician (ancient Rome… Mehr…

Princeton University Press Roman Ancient History Aristocracy; Politics; Political culture; Symbolic capital; Praetor; Institution; Political class; Roman Republic; Patrician (ancient Rome); Roman consul; Roman Forum; Plebs; Roman Law; Roman army; Mos maiorum; Patrician (post-Roman Europe); Crisis of the Roman Republic; Roman citizenship; Suetonius; Cursus honorum; Tribune of the Plebs; Principate; Meritocracy; Ancient Rome; City-state; Scipio Aemilianus; Caecilius Metellus; Magister equitum; Pontifex Maximus; Cornelius Scipio; Sulla; Gaius Marius; Classical archaeology; Achievement (heraldry); Comitium; Culture of ancient Rome; Fabius Maximus; Commentariolum Petitionis; Oligarchy; Punic Wars; Imperialism; Classics; First Punic War; Dictator perpetuo; Political system; Second Mithridatic War; Papirius (pontifex); Historiography; Legionary; Auctoritas; Quaestor; Postmodernism; Cassius Dio; New Laws; Ideology; Radicalism (historical); Ancient history; Voting; Legislation; Political history; Appian Way; Edmund Husserl; Tomb of the Scipios; Reform of the House of Lords; Roman Empire; Constitutional theory; Valerius Maximus; Historian; Military tribune; Ambitus 9780691140384, UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20100322 English History, Princeton University Press<

ISBN: 9781400834907

Reconstructing the Roman Republic ab 68.99 € als pdf eBook: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus, Medien > Bücher, Reconstructing … Mehr…

Reconstructing the Roman Republic ab 68.99 € als pdf eBook: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus, Medien > Bücher, Reconstructing the Roman Republic - eBook als pdf von Karl-J. Holkeskamp - Princeton University Press - 9781400834907<

ISBN: 9781400834907

Reconstructing the Roman Republic - An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research: ab 68.99 € eBooks > Geschichte & Dokus Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9781400834907

Reconstructing the Roman Republic - An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research: ab 66.99 € eBooks > Geschichte & Dokus Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press