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Remembering the Roman People - Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature (Hardcover)
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Remembering the Roman People - Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature (Hardcover)
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In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the
People could elect politicians to office, and the very word
republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always
assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that
most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and
a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took
it for granted that what was good for a small minority of
self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as
a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic
on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology
of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified
murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil
war.
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