Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic

Informationen zum Autor Valentina Arena is Professor of Ancient History at University College London. Her work focuses on the history of Roman politics, ancient political thought, and the wider intellectual landscape of the Roman Republic. She is the author of Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the late Roman Republic (2012), and, the editor of Liberty: an Ancient Concept for the Contemporary World (2018). She has co-edited volumes on Varro and the antiquarian tradition (2017 and 2018) and is currently directing the ERC funded project Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians. 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). Klappentext An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politicsIn 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 timesPerfect 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. Zusammenfassung An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politicsIn 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 in...

List of contents

Notes on Editors xiii
 
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

Product details

• Authors: V Arena, Valentin Arena, Valentina Arena, Valentina (University College London) Prag Arena, Valentina Prag Arena, Jonathan R W Prag, Jonathan R. W. Prag, Andrew Stiles
• Assisted by: Valentina Arena (Editor), Arena Valentina (Editor), Jonathan R. W. Prag (Editor), Prag Jonathan R. W. (Editor), Jonathan R W Prag (Editor), Andrew Stiles (Editor), Andrew Stiles (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781444339659
• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3965-9
• No. of pages: 624
• Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; Blackwell Companions to the An
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Antike, Rom /Alte Geschichte, Classical Studies, Humanistische Studien, Ancient & Classical History, Antike u. klassische Geschichte, Kultur der römischen Antike, Roman Culture