Andrew Lintott

The Constitution of the Roman Republic (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome's empire. He regarded the Republic as unusual in two respects: first, because it functioned so well despite being a mix of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy; secondly, because the constitution was the product of natural evolution rather than the ideals of a lawgiver. Even if historians now seek more widely for the causes of Rome's rise to power, the importance and influence of her political institutions remains. The reasons for Rome's power are both complex, on account of the mix of elements, and flexible, inasmuch as they were not founded on written statutes but on unwritten traditions reinterpreted by successive generations. Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191584671
• Artikelnr.: 59535382

Autorenporträt

Andrew Lintott is Professor of Roman History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction
II: A Roman Political Year
III: Polybius and the Constitution
IV: The Story of the Origin of the Constitution
V: The Assemblies
VI: The Senate
VII: The Higher Magistrates and the Pro-Magistrates
VIII: Tribunes, Aediles, and Minor Magistrates
IX: Criminal Justice
X: The Influence of Society and Religion
XI: The Balance of the Constitution
XII: The Mixed Constitution and Republican Ideology
XIII: The Republic Remembered