Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research - Couverture rigide

Hölkeskamp, Karl-J.

 
9780691140384: Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0691140383 ISBN 13 : 9780691140384
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form.

Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography.

Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.

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À propos de l?auteur

Karl-J. Holkeskamp is professor of ancient history at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on civic society, politics, and law in ancient Greece and the Roman Republic.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691140383
ISBN 13 
9780691140384
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
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