Libertas and Res publica in the Roman Republic : : ideas of freedom and Roman politics / / edited by Catalina Balmaceda.

Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety of different aspects...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 37.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Archaic ideas on the concept of libertas / Carlos Amunátegui
  • Libertas in early Latin authors / Catalina Balmaceda
  • The god Liber and republican notions of libertas in the late Roman Republic / Valentina Arena
  • The freedom of the Rhodians : Cato the Elder and Demosthenes / Harriet Flower
  • Ex imperio libertas : freedom and republican empire / Clifford Ando
  • The notion of res publica and its conflicting meanings at the end of the Roman Republic / Claudia Moatti
  • The consulship under the triumvirs : a phantom office? / Francisco Pina Polo
  • Arbitration in the res publica : a novel way of solving internal political conflicts in the 40s and 30s BC / Cristina Rosillo-López
  • The auctoritas and libertas of Augustus : metamorphosis of the Roman res publica / Frédéric Hurlet
  • A great and arduous struggle : Marcus Antonius and the rhetoric of libertas in 44-43 BC / Jeff Tatum
  • Res publica, libertas and free speech in retrospect : republican oratory in Tacitus' Dialogus / Henriette van der Blom.