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Res Publica and the Roman Republic - 'Without Body or Form' (Hardcover)
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Res Publica and the Roman Republic - 'Without Body or Form' (Hardcover)
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Res Publica and the Roman Republic tells the story of an idea - res
publica - and shows us what it meant and was made to mean in the
particular historical context of the late Roman Republic. Since the
term was politically ubiquitous, often used emotively, and as a
consequence is hard to define, the temptation to take res publica
as a universally understood and relatively uncontroversial given is
rarely resisted. A close look at how res publica was perceived and
manipulated, however, brings into focus not just the political
crises of the late Republic but also the various attempts to clean
up these crises through dubiously legal (and often outright
illegal) emergency measures. Although this book is at root a
philological study of a political concept, it aims to make a
historical point about a politically turbulent period by addressing
three key questions: What did it mean for Republican politicians to
appeal to the res publica? What did the increasing tendency to do
so reveal about the dangerous fragmentation of political
legitimacy? How did these pressures transform res publica as a
concept? Through a detailed examination of res publica as it
appears in the ancient historians, orators, poets, commentaries and
letters, inscriptions, and historical episodes of the late Republic
and early Principate, this book demonstrates how the rhetoric
surrounding res publica mirrored the changes in the Roman political
landscape towards the end of the Republic.
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