The Constitution of the Roman Republic

Zusatztext This study remains as important to students of ancient history as to classicists. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Lintott is Professor of Roman History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College Klappentext There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome's empire. Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung Rome acquired her great empire under republican institutions. These institutions were held to be remarkably stable because they were a mixture of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy, created by natural evolution not by a lawgiver. The Republic was also a classic example of a largely unwritten constitution, like that of Britain, and so it has bearing on modern political theory.

This study remains as important to students of ancient history as to classicists.

Autorentext

Andrew Lintott is Professor of Roman History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College

Klappentext

There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome's empire. Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment.

Inhalt

• I: Introduction

• II: A Roman Political Year

• III: Polybius and the Constitution

• IV: The Story of the Origin of the Constitution

• V: The Assemblies

• VI: The Senate

• VII: The Higher Magistrates and the Pro-Magistrates

• VIII: Tribunes, Aediles, and Minor Magistrates

• IX: Criminal Justice

• X: The Influence of Society and Religion

• XI: The Balance of the Constitution

• XII: The Mixed Constitution and Republican Ideology

• XIII: The Republic Remembered