Roman Republics / / Harriet I. Flower.

From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century BC--has profoundly shaped how Roman history is understood, how the ultimate failure of Roman republicanism is explained, and how republ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2009
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • PART ONE: FRAMEWORK
  • I. Introduction: Periodization and the End of the Roman Republic
  • II. Toward a New Paradigm: "Roman Republics"
  • III. Early Republics (Fifth and Fourth Centuries)
  • PART TWO: CHANGE
  • IV. Political Innovations: A Community in Transition (Second Century)
  • V. Violence and the Breakdown of the Political Process (133-81)
  • VI. External Pressures on Internal Politics (140-83)
  • PART THREE: AFTERMATH
  • VII. An Alternative to a Crisis: Sulla's New Republic
  • VIII. After the Shipwreck (78-49) 135
  • IX. Implications
  • Appendix: An Assortment of Timelines, the Hellenistic Age and Republican Time, Temple Time
  • Bibliography
  • Index