In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was
essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the'sovereign'people and their …

Provincial governance under the Roman republic has long been notorious for its corrupt
officials and greedy tax-farmers, though this is far from being the whole story. This book …

The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation
for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language …

The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense
debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence,'parties' …

The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new
book, distinguished historian WV Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical …

Res Publica and the Roman Republic tells the story of an idea-res publica-and shows us
what it meant and was made to mean in the particular historical context of the late Roman …

The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the
quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study …

I think of Killen now when I read about or teach the treason trial of Rabirius.'The trial for high
treason of Gaius Rabirius', writes H. Grose Hodge in the Loeb Classical Library introduction …

Warum besuchten Angehorige der romischen Plebs offentliche Versammlungen?
Ausgehend von den materiellen Annehmlichkeiten des romischen Volkes (lat. Commoda …

Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written
amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus …