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Aristotle’s Political Philosophy in its Historical Context
This book offers new translations of Aristotle’s Politics 5 and 6, accompanied by an introduction and commentary, targeted at historians and those who like to read political …
The Cambridge Ancient History
The period described in Volume 10 of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of …
The Constitution of the Roman Republic
There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a …
Violence in Republican Rome
Why did the aristocracy of the Roman Republic destroy the system of government which was its basis? The answers given by ancient authorities are moral corruption and personal …
Aristotle's Political Philosophy in its Historical Context
This book offers new translations of Aristotle's Politics 5 and 6, accompanied by an introduction and commentary, targeted at historians and those who like to read political …
Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero
Plutarch's Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of …
Cicero as Evidence
Cicero, one of the greatest orators of all time and an important politician at the time of the downfall of the Roman Republic, has left in his writings a first-hand view of the age …
Imperium Romanum
The Roman Empire at its height encompassed the majority of the world known to the Romans. This important synthesis of recent findings and scholarship demonstrates how the Romans …
Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City (Routledge Revivals)
Violent conflict between individuals and groups was as common in the ancient world as it has been in more recent history. Detested in theory, it nevertheless became as frequent as …
The Romans in the Age of Augustus
Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this book offers a fascinating history of Rome and the Roman peoples during the rule of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Written in an …
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the ‘Fall of the Roman Republic’. Chapters 1-12 supply a …
Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic
Twelve fragments of bronze were found near Urbino in the late fifteenth century, engraved with Roman laws - on one side a law concerning extortion, on the other an agrarian law. …