Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a Roman thought
  • Roman historians and the myth of Rome
  • The wronged Lucretia and the early republic
  • Self-inflicted wounds
  • 'Like a Colossus' : Julius Caesar
  • Ben Jonson's Rome
  • O'erflowing the measure : Antony and Cleopatra
  • The city and the battlefield : Coriolanus
  • Tyranny and empire
  • Ancient Britons and Romans
  • Postscript: Shakespeare and the republican tradition.