TY  - GEN
T1  - Reconstructing the Roman republic : an ancient political culture and modern research
A1  - Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim
A2  - Heitmann-Gordon, Henry
LA  - English
LA  - German
PP  - Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn669828230
AB  - In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the "sovereign" people and their assemblies. The author challenges this view in this book, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. He offers a survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the "oligarchic orthodoxy" was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. He renews and refines the "elitist" view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography.
OP  - 189
CN  - DG241.2.H6513 2010
SN  - 1400834902
SN  - 9781400834907
SN  - 9781282936232
SN  - 1282936239
SN  - 9780691140384
SN  - 0691140383
KW  - Rome : Politics and government : 265-30 B.C.
KW  - Rome : History : Republic, 265-30 B.C.
KW  - Rome : Politique et gouvernement : 265-30 av. J.-C.
KW  - Rome : Histoire : 265-30 av. J.-C. (République)
KW  - HISTORY : Ancient : Rome.
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Politische Kultur
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Politiska förhållanden : historia.
KW  - Romerska riket.
KW  - 265-30 B.C
KW  - 265-31 f. Kr. (senrepubliken)
KW  - dissertations.
KW  - History
KW  - Academic theses.
KW  - Thèses et écrits académiques.
ER  -