Remembering the Roman people: essays on late-republican politics and literature

A challenging reinterpretation of the political culture of the last century of the Roman Republic. Wiseman argues that the People had their own egalitarianethos, usually in conflict with the self-styled 'best' ( optimates), who, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the republic's breakdown in civil war. INDICE: 1: Roman History and the Ideological Vacuum; 2: The Fall and Rise of Gaius Geta; 3: Licinius Macer, Juno Moneta and Veiovis; 4: Romulus' Rome ofEquals; 5: Macaulay on Cicero; 6: Cicero and Varro; 7: Marcopolis; 8: The Political Stage; 9: The Ethics of Murder; 10: After the Ides of March; Epilogue

• ISBN: 978-0-19-960996-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés