A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
1. Auflage Februar 2022
624 Seiten, Hardcover
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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:
* A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture
* Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies
* Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization
* In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times
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.
Notes on Contributors xiv
Abbreviations xx
Introduction 1
Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag
1 Political Culture: Career of a Concept 4
Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Part I Modern Reading 21
2 Machiavelli's Roman Republic 25
Ryan K. Balot and Nathaniel K. Gilmore
3 The Roman Republic and the English Republic 40
Rachel Foxley
4 Liberty, Rights and Virtue: The Roman Republic in Eighteenth-Century France 52
Christopher Hamel
5 A Roman Revolution: Classical Republicanism in the Creation of the American Republic 68
Eran Shalev
6 Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome and Its Political and Intellectual Context 81
Stefan Rebenich
7 The Political Culture of the Republic since Syme's The Roman Revolution: A Story of a Debate 93
Alexander Yakobson
Part II Ancient Interpreters 107
8 Polybius and Roman Political Culture 111
Chiara Carsana
9 Cicero: In and Above the Republic's Political Culture 125
Walter Nicgorski
10 Sallust 136
J. Alison Rosenblitt
11 Augustan Republics: Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Politics of the Past 146
Andrew Gallia
12 Plutarch's Evaluation of Roman Politics and Political Figures 159
Mark Beck
13 Appian, Cassius Dio and the Roman Republic 174
John Rich
Part III Institutionalised Loci 189
14 The Census 193
Guido Clemente
15 The Senate 206
Marianne Coudry
16 Roman Political Assemblies 220
Tim Cornell
17 Armies and Political Culture 236
Nathan Rosenstein
18 Imperator and Politician: The Consul as the Highest Magistrate of the Republic 248
Francisco Pina Polo
19 The Tribunate of the Plebs: Between Compromise and Revolution 260
Amy Russell
20 Priests 274
Jörg Rüpke
21 Other Magistrates, Officials and Apparitores 285
E.J. Kondratieff
Part IV Political Actors 303
22 The Civis 307
Andrea Raggi
23 Romans, Latins and Allies 318
Edward Bispham
24 Peregrini/Nationes Exterae: Foreigners and the Political Culture of the Roman Republic 332
Lisa Pilar Eberle
25 Republican Elites: Patricians, Nobiles, Senators and Equestrians 347
Hans Beck
26 Matronae and Politics in Republican Rome 362
Francesca Rohr Vio
27 On Freedom and Citizenship: Freedmen as Agents and Metaphors of Roman Political Culture 374
Pedro López Barja de Quiroga
Part V Values, Rituals and Political Discourse 387
28 Roman Republican Political Culture: Values and Ideology 391
Robert Morstein-Marx
29 From Patronage to Violence and Bribery: Towards a New Political Culture 408
Antonio Duplá-Ansuategui
30 The Political Culture of the Plebs 422
Jerry Toner
31 The Law and the Courts in Roman Political Culture 433
Jean-Michel David
32 Rhetoric and Roman Political Culture 446
Catherine Steel
33 Religion and Rituals in Republican Rome 455
Francisco Marco Simón
34 Myth and Theatre 470
Uwe Walter
35 Imagery and Space 484
Peter J. Holliday
Part VI Politics in Action - Case Studies 505
36 The Political Culture of Rome in 218 - 212 bce 509
Bernhard Linke
37 Roman Political Culture in 169 bce 524
John A. North
38 133 bce: Politics in a Time of Challenge and Crisis 537
J. Lea Beness and Tom Hillard
39 88 bce 555
W. Jeffrey Tatum
40 The Year 52 bce 568
Egon Flaig
Index 583
Jonathan Prag is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He works on the history of the Roman Republic, ancient Sicily, and epigraphy and digital methods. He has previously co-edited The Hellenistic West (2013) and A Handbook to Petronius (2009). 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).
