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Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (Paperback)
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Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (Paperback)
Series: Sather Classical Lectures, 22
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The advice given to Cicero by his astute, campaign-conscious
brother to prepare him for the consular elections of 64 B.C., has a
curiously modern ring: "Avoid taking a definite stand on great
public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your
energies towards making friends of key-men in all classes of
voters". On this text Professor Taylor's book is a shrewd
commentary, designed to clarify the true meaning in Roman political
life of such terms as "party" and "faction", so like our own to the
eye but actually so different. Political parties with programs in
our sense were unknown at Rome, the nearest approach being
aggregations of "friends" for personal advancement in politics or
finance. The mechanics of Roman politics are explained in detail -
the relations of nobles and their clients, the manipulation of the
state religion (always regarded in the best Roman theory as a
political agency), and the practical issue of delivering the vote
as and when wanted.
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