A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic

Identifiers: LCCN 2021024437 (print) | LCCN 2021024438 (ebook) | ISBN 9781444339659 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119673712 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119673651 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119673590 (epub) | ISBN 9781119673675 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Political culture--Rome. | Republicanism--Rome. | Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.

Classification: LCC JC83 .C66 2022 (print) | LCC JC83 (ebook) | DDC 320.9456/32--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021024437LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021024438

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1 Cover

2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Notes on Editors

7 Notes on Contributors

8 Abbreviations

9 Introduction

10 1 Political Culture: Career of a Concept

11 Part I Modern Reading 2 Machiavelli’s Roman Republic 3 The Roman Republic and the English Republic 4 Liberty, Rights and Virtue: The Roman Republic in Eighteenth-Century France 5 A Roman Revolution: Classical Republicanism in the Creation of the American Republic 6 Theodor Mommsen’s History of Rome and Its Political and Intellectual Context 7 The Political Culture of the Republic since Syme’s The Roman Revolution : A Story of a Debate

12 Part II Ancient Interpreters 9 Cicero: In and Above the Republic’s Political Culture 10 Sallust 11 Augustan Republics: Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Politics of the Past 12 Plutarch’s Evaluation of Roman Politics and Political Figures 13 Appian, Cassius Dio and the Roman Republic

13 Part III Institutionalised Loci 14 The Census 15 The Senate 16 Roman Political Assemblies 17 Armies and Political Culture 18 Imperator and Politician: The Consul as the Highest Magistrate of the Republic 19 The Tribunate of the Plebs: Between Compromise and Revolution 20 Priests 21 Other Magistrates, Officials and Apparitores

14 Part IV Political Actors 22 The Civis 23 Romans, Latins and Allies 24 Peregrini/Nationes Exterae: Foreigners and the Political Culture of the Roman Republic 25 Republican Elites: Patricians, Nobiles, Senators and Equestrians 26 Matronae and Politics in Republican Rome 27 On Freedom and Citizenship: Freedmen as Agents and Metaphors of Roman Political Culture

15 Part V Values, Rituals and Political Discourse 28 Roman Republican Political Culture: Values and Ideology 29 From Patronage to Violence and Bribery: Towards a New Political Culture 30 The Political Culture of the Plebs 31 The Law and the Courts in Roman Political Culture 32 Rhetoric and Roman Political Culture 33 Religion and Rituals in Republican Rome 34 Myth and Theatre 35 Imagery and Space

16 Part VI Politics in Action – Case Studies 36 The Political Culture of Rome in 218–212 bce 37 Roman Political Culture in 169 bce 38 133 bce: Politics in a Time of Challenge and Crisis 39 88 bce 40 The Year 52 bce

17 Index

18 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 19Figure 19.1: Denarius of Palicanus, 45 bce, Rome, silver...

2 Chapter 21Figure 21.1: Denarius of C. Minucius Augurinus, 135 bce,...Figure 21.2: Denarius of Q. Servilius Caepio, 100 bce, Rome...

3 Chapter 23Figure 23.1: Denarius serratus of Q. Fufius Calenus,...

4 Chapter 27Figure 27.1: Denarius of M. Iunius Brutus and L. Plaetorius...

5 Chapter 28Figure 28.1: Denarius of P. Porcius Laeca, 110–109 bce,...Figure 28.2: Denarius of C. Cassius, 126 bce, Rome, silver...Figure 28.3: Denarius of P. Licinius Nerva, 113–112 bce, Rome...

6 Chapter 33Figure 33.1: Map of Rome with the pomerium and most important...Figure 33.2: Typical route of triumphal processions...

7 Chapter 35Figure 35.1: Axonometric drawing of the Roman Forum in the second...Figure 35.2: Marcus Antonius Base (so-called Altar of Domitius...Figure 35.3: Plan of Rome in 52 bce. 1: Circus Maximus...Figure 35.4: Plan of the Largo Argentina Temples, late first century...Figure 35.5: Area of the Largo Argentina, from foreground: Temple C, B and A.Figure 35.6: Area of the Porticus Metelli, later the Porticus Octaviae...Figure 35.7: General from Tivoli, c. 75–50 bce; (H 1.88 m)...Figure 35.8: ‘The Arringatore’ (Aulus Metellus)...Figure 35.9: Terracotta pediment from the Via di San Gregorio....Figure 35.10: Tomb of the Cornelii Scipiones, reconstruction of the...Figure 35.11: Reconstruction of the painting from the Tomb of Q. Fabius...

1 Chapter 16Table 16.1 Distribution of centuries.

1 Cover

2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Table of Contents

7 Notes on Editors

8 Notes on Contributors

9 Abbreviations

10 Begin Reading

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

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