It is a fact that the very long-lived Roman Republic has
consistently played a surprisingly slight role in political theory
and discussions about the nature of democracy, forms of government,
and other matters, particularly when compared to the enormous
attention paid to fifth-century BCE Athenian democracy. Fergus
Millar re-opens the issue of how the Roman Republic was understood
and used by political thinkers from the Ancient World to the
present. Describing both the reality of the late Roman Republic and
showing how its nature was distorted even by contemporary sources,
he tracks its treatment (or absence) in political discourse from
Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, and in
debates surrounding the creation of the American constitution,
particularly in the Federalist papers.
In brief, clear prose, with quotations in English from important
works, and economical use of endnotes, he reinforces his
unconventional thesis about the significance of direct democracy in
the late Roman Republic. In the process, he also provides an
unprecedented tour through 2000 years of Western political theory
from the point of view of the Roman Republic, in general, and
theories of direct democracy and the balance of power, in
particular.
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