Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome During the Late Republic and Early Principate

Ch Wirszubski

ISBN 10: 0521068487 / ISBN 13: 9780521068482

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1950

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan, a period in which the Republican constitution gradually gave way and was finally superceded by the Principate which, in its own turn, considerably changed during the first century AD. Libertas, while identified with the republican constitution during the Republican period, continued to be a popular slogan and a constitutional principle under the Principate, and C H Wirszubski questions whether the political content of Roman libertas changed as the Roman constitution was transformed. He explores the general characteristics of libertas before engaging with both the background and the major points that were at issue, concluding his analysis with consideration of libertas in the context of the Principate. Originally published in the 1950s, Wirszubski's classic study has now been digitally re-printed for a new generation of scholars.

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• Titre: Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome During the Late Republic and Early Principate
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1950
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521068487
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521068482
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 222 L x 145 H x 14 P (en millimètres) 222 millimètres de largeur par 145 millimètres de hauteur par 14 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 385 grammes

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This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan, a period in which the Republican constitution gradually gave way and was finally superceded by the Principate which, in its own turn, considerably changed during the first century AD. Libertas, while identified with the republican constitution during the Republican period, continued to be a popular slogan and a constitutional principle under the Principate, and C H Wirszubski questions whether the political content of Roman libertas changed as the Roman constitution was transformed. He explores the general characteristics of libertas before engaging with both the background and the major points that were at issue, concluding his analysis with consideration of libertas in the context of the Principate. Originally published in the 1950s, Wirszubski's classic study has been digitally reprinted for a new generation of scholars.