Roman republics
In Roman Republics, Harriet Flower argues for a completely new interpretation of republican chronology. Radically challenging the traditional picture of a single monolithic republic, she argues that there were multiple republics, each with its own clearly distinguishable strengths and weaknesses. While classicists have long recognized that the Roman Republic changed and evolved over time, Flower is the first to mount a serious argument against the idea of republican continuity that has been fundamental to modern historical study. By showing that the Romans created a series of republics, she reveals that there was much more change--and much less continuity--over the republican period than has previously been assumed. --from publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2010
Princeton University Press, Princeton, ©2010
History
xi, 204 pages ; 23 cm
9780691140438, 9780691152585, 069114043X, 0691152586
301798480
Periodization and the end of the Roman Republic
Toward a new paradigm : Roman republics
Early republics (fifth and fourth centuries)
Political innovations : a community in transition (second century)
Violence and the breakdown of the political process (133-81)
External pressures on internal politics (140-83)
An alternative to a crisis : Sulla's new republic
After the shipwreck (78-49)
Implications