Libertas As a Political Idea At Rome During the Late Republic and - Early Principat

Zusammenfassung This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan! a period in which the Republican constitution gradually gave way and was finally superceded by the Principate which! in its own turn! considerably changed during the first century AD. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prolegomena; 1. General characteristics of libertas; 2. Civil discord: optimates and populares; 3. The decline of the traditional form of government; 4. The Augustan principate in relation to libertas; 5. Principatus et libertas res olim dissociabiles; Bibliography of works referred to; Index.

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• Authors: C. Wirszubski, Ch Wirszubski, Chaim Wirszubski
• Assisted by: P. E. Easterling (Editor), M. K. Hopkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1950
• EAN: 9780521068482
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06848-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity