Название: Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research
Автор: Karl-J. Holkeskamp
Издательство: Princeton University Press; Revised
ISBN: 0691140383
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 2,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
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. Karl-J. H?lkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, 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.
H?lkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth 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.