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Roman republics /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Flower, Harriet I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.