Roman Crossings

Theory and practice in the Roman Republic

edited by Kathryn Welch and T.W. Hillard

Book cover: Roman Crossings

Extent: 300 pages

Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales

Subjects: Classical Studies, Social Sciences 

Series: Roman World

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2005)

ISBN: 9781905125005

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $85.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2005)

ISBN: 9781914535161

Price: $68.00

Eleven new essays, from an international cast, trace the development of political culture in the Roman Republic. Themes include the flourishing of civic society, as with the introduction of the Roman Games, and the emergence of a theory of politeness. How was a Roman aristocrat formed? How did the term ‘Optimates’ develop from the middle Republic onwards? And how, especially, did the rhetoric of Cicero reflect and adapt to the pressures of civil war in the Republic’s climactic and dying years?

Theory and practice in the Roman Republic: an introduction - T.W. Hillard Origines ludorum - T.P. Wiseman Optimates: an archaeology - A.M. Stone The law that Catulus passed - Benjamin Kelly Priests and politicians - reflections on Livy and Cicero's de Domo Sua - David F.C. Thomas Cicero's vir clarissimus - Simon Whitehead What Caesar said: rhetoric and history in Sallust's Coniuratio Catilinae 51 - R.F. Tannenbaum Cato's opposition to Caesar in 59 BC - Jane Bellemore Cicero Fam. 16.21, Roman politeness, and the socialization of Marcus Cicero the Younger - Jon Hall Style and ideology in the pro Marcello - B.A. Krostenko Lux and Lumen in Cicero's Rome: a metaphor for the Res Publica and her leaders? - Kathryn Welch

  • Edited by T.W. Hillard
  • Edited by Kathryn Welch