Constitution of the Roman Republic

Zusatztext This study remains as important to students of ancient history as to classicists. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Lintott is Professor of Roman History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung Rome acquired her great empire under republican institutions. These institutions were held to be remarkably stable because they were a mixture of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy, created by natural evolution not by a lawgiver. The Republic was also a classic example of a largely unwritten constitution, like that of Britain, and so it has bearing on modern political theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Andrew Lintott, Andrew (Fellow and Reader in Ancient Hist Lintott, Andrew (Fellow and Reader in Ancient History Lintott, Andrew William Lintott, Lintott Andrew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2003
• EAN: 9780199261086
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926108-6
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LAW / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Constitution: government & the state, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Constitution: government and the state, Roman law, Systems of law: Roman law