Remembering the Roman People

Remembering the Roman People
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780191617010
ISBN-13 : 0191617016
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Book Synopsis Remembering the Roman People by : T. P. Wiseman

Download or read book Remembering the Roman People written by T. P. Wiseman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil war.


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