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2023
The Roman military machine is so well known to us today it is easy to take its rise to dominance in the ancient world for granted. However, its origins were complex and have their roots deep within the Roman Republic, and even earlier. Indeed, Rome’s rise to greatness was never guaranteed and was a painstaking process featuring many setbacks.
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The Roman military machine is so well known to us today it is easy to take its rise to dominance in the ancient world for granted. However, its origins were complex and have their roots deep within the Roman Republic, and even earlier. Indeed, Rome’s rise to greatness was never guaranteed and was a painstaking process featuring many setbacks.
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Electoral Bribery in the Roman Republic
Journal of Roman Studies, 1990In Western Europe to-day we tend to assume automatically that electoral bribery is pernicious, in that it distorts the democratic process, the selection by the people of their own representatives, by shifting whatever power lies in the generality of the electorate back into the hands of the people who seek office, so that a democratic procedure becomes
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2021
This book explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.
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This book explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.
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1997
Abstract It must seem redundant, perhaps impertinent even, to seek to justify a place for Rome in a general history of government. Western Europe is the heir to Rome. Rome was the carrier of the culture of the Hellenic world which she incorporated: of Christianity and of Roman law which have shaped western values up to our day; the ...
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Abstract It must seem redundant, perhaps impertinent even, to seek to justify a place for Rome in a general history of government. Western Europe is the heir to Rome. Rome was the carrier of the culture of the Hellenic world which she incorporated: of Christianity and of Roman law which have shaped western values up to our day; the ...
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The origins of the Roman Republic are obscure, and much of what the Romans themselves wrote about their distant past is legend rather than history. The traditional date for the founding of the city by the mythical demigod Romulus is 753 BCE. The Roman Republic was claimed to have been founded in 509 BCE, after the overthrow of a legendary Etruscan king,
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2018
Modern theorists, developers, and practitioners of peace/stability operations should look to relevant historical examples for guidance. Despite the many centuries separating the ancient Roman Republic from today, its experiences with similar operations (perhaps “proto-peace/stability operations”) are demonstrably deeply relevant to current discussions.
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Modern theorists, developers, and practitioners of peace/stability operations should look to relevant historical examples for guidance. Despite the many centuries separating the ancient Roman Republic from today, its experiences with similar operations (perhaps “proto-peace/stability operations”) are demonstrably deeply relevant to current discussions.
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