Beyond Populares and Optimates: Political Language in the Late Republic - Couverture rigide

Robb, M A

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3515096434 ISBN 13 : 9783515096430

Editeur : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2010

Synopsis

Modern interpretations of the late Roman Republic have been dominated by the twin concepts of 'populares' and 'optimates', commonly assumed to refer to two antithetical political categories. However, the definition of these groups is much debated: some historians see them as ideological movements or traditions, others as differences of political style and method. This book asks whether this debate may in fact be chasing a mirage. Through a detailed analysis of the usage of the two terms in Cicero and his close contemporaries, it is argued that they carried no clear political meaning. What emerges instead is a political language focused on the elite's fundamental concerns about internal divisions and the maintenance of aristocratic consensus.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

M. Robb is a visiting research fellow in the Department of Classics, King's College, London. Field of research: Roman Republican history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3515096434
• ISBN 13: 9783515096430
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 225
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible