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Remembering the Roman People Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

Wiseman T. P.
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199239764
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
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521 gr
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223 mm
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144 mm
Dybde
18 mm
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UU, UP, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Wiseman T. P.

Biographical note

T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Exeter.

Remembering the Roman People Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

Wiseman T. P.
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This book is ground-breaking for its simple suggestion that the ideology of Roman popular politics is not entirely lost to us, and for its virtuoso demonstration that, fragmentary, inadequate and intensively studied as our sources for the pe riod are, they may still have more to tell us.

Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement

a very interesting and important book

M.G.L. Cooley, Journal of Classics Teaching

All students of the Roman Republic will profit from the quality of scholarship in this volume, as well as from the whole concept of imagining a fresh perspective on a well-known historical period.

Harriet Flower, Journal of Roman Studies

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A book by Peter Wiseman promises a congenial blend of erudition and provocation - and this one does not disappoint ... this is a terrific book, not least because it exhibits a profound passion for the facts of the past, and the truths they reveal.

W. Jeffrey Tatum, Hermathena

In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil war.
Les mer
A challenging reinterpretation of the political culture of the last century of the Roman Republic. T. P. Wiseman argues that the People had their own egalitarian ethos, usually in conflict with that of the self-styled `best' (optimates), who, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the republic's breakdown in civil war.
Les mer
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 of Equals ; 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
Les mer
Gives a fresh insight into the final crisis of the Roman Republic Analysis of varied types of ancient evidence engages readers in the search for understanding
T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Exeter.
Gives a fresh insight into the final crisis of the Roman Republic Analysis of varied types of ancient evidence engages readers in the search for understanding

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This book is ground-breaking for its simple suggestion that the ideology of Roman popular politics is not entirely lost to us, and for its virtuoso demonstration that, fragmentary, inadequate and intensively studied as our sources for the pe riod are, they may still have more to tell us.

Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement

a very interesting and important book

M.G.L. Cooley, Journal of Classics Teaching

All students of the Roman Republic will profit from the quality of scholarship in this volume, as well as from the whole concept of imagining a fresh perspective on a well-known historical period.

Harriet Flower, Journal of Roman Studies

Se alle

A book by Peter Wiseman promises a congenial blend of erudition and provocation - and this one does not disappoint ... this is a terrific book, not least because it exhibits a profound passion for the facts of the past, and the truths they reveal.

W. Jeffrey Tatum, Hermathena

In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil war.
Les mer
A challenging reinterpretation of the political culture of the last century of the Roman Republic. T. P. Wiseman argues that the People had their own egalitarian ethos, usually in conflict with that of the self-styled `best' (optimates), who, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the republic's breakdown in civil war.
Les mer
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 of Equals ; 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
Les mer
Gives a fresh insight into the final crisis of the Roman Republic Analysis of varied types of ancient evidence engages readers in the search for understanding
T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Exeter.
Gives a fresh insight into the final crisis of the Roman Republic Analysis of varied types of ancient evidence engages readers in the search for understanding

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199239764
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
521 gr
Høyde
223 mm
Bredde
144 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Wiseman T. P.

Biographical note

T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Exeter.

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