A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic.

Intro -- A COMPANION TO THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC -- Contents -- Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Political Culture: Career of a Concept -- Part I Modern Reading -- 2 Machiavelli's Roman Republic -- 3 The Roman Republic and the English Republic -- 4 Liberty, Rights and Virtue: The Roman Republic in Eighteenth-Century France -- 5 A Roman Revolution: Classical Republicanism in the Creation of the American Republic -- 6 Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome and Its Political and Intellectual Context -- 7 The Political Culture of the Republic since Syme's The Roman Revolution: A Story of a Debate -- Part II Ancient Interpreters -- 8 Polybius and Roman Political Culture -- 9 Cicero: In and Above the Republic's Political Culture -- 10 Sallust -- 11 Augustan Republics: Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Politics of the Past -- 12 Plutarch's Evaluation of Roman Politics and Political Figures -- 13 Appian, Cassius Dio and the Roman Republic -- Part III Institutionalised Loci -- 14 The Census -- 15 The Senate -- 16 Roman Political Assemblies -- 17 Armies and Political Culture -- 18 Imperator and Politician: The Consul as the Highest Magistrate of the Republic -- 19 The Tribunate of the Plebs: Between Compromise and Revolution -- 20 Priests -- 21 Other Magistrates, Officials and Apparitores -- Part IV Political Actors -- 22 The Civis -- 23 Romans, Latins and Allies -- 24 Peregrini/Nationes Exterae: Foreigners and the Political Culture of the Roman Republic -- 25 Republican Elites: Patricians, Nobiles, Senators and Equestrians -- 26 Matronae and Politics in Republican Rome -- 27 On Freedom and Citizenship: Freedmen as Agents and Metaphors of Roman Political Culture -- Part V Values, Rituals and Political Discourse -- 28 Roman Republican Political Culture: Values and Ideology.

29 From Patronage to Violence and Bribery: Towards a New Political Culture -- 30 The Political Culture of the Plebs -- 31 The Law and the Courts in Roman Political Culture -- 32 Rhetoric and Roman Political Culture -- 33 Religion and Rituals in Republican Rome -- 34 Myth and Theatre -- 35 Imagery and Space -- Part VI Politics in Action - Case Studies -- 36 The Political Culture of Rome in 218-212 bce -- 37 Roman Political Culture in 169 bce -- 38 133 bce: Politics in a Time of Challenge and Crisis -- 39 88 bce -- 40 The Year 52 bce -- Index -- EULA.

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