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Rome's Italian wars : books six to ten
\"Here is a superb new translation of Books 6 to 10 of Livy's monumental history of Rome, covering the period when Rome, in a series of ever greater wars, imposed mastery over virtually the entire Italian peninsula. Livy paints vivid portraits of all the notable figures, such as young Manlius Torquatus, victor in a David-versus-Goliath duel with a Gallic chieftain, and Appius Claudius who built Rome's first major highway, the Appian Way. Livy's blend of factual narrative and imaginative recreation brings to life a key moment in the rise of Rome, and the one complete account we have, as the city passes from the mists of legend into the light of history. J. C. Yardley's translation gives a vivid sense of the energy, variety, and literary skill of Livy's great work. Dexter Hoyos's Introduction sets Livy in the context of Roman historiography and deftly explains why this period was so critical an era for the rise of Rome. The most up-to-date edition, drawing on the latest scholarship, this major work of Roman literature and history includes comprehensive notes that clarify problems of historical content, topography, and chronology, a detailed glossary of Roman technical terms, an appendix on the Roman legion of the time, and two maps.\"--Publisher's website.
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Nobis adeo propria sunt auspicia
The literary sources flaunt the absolute monopoly exercised by the patriciate on magistracies and auspicia, an image that the doctrine tends, dogmatically and often uncritically, to accept. The paper recontextualizes, following its diachronic development (from ‘Romulus’ to the 4th century BC), the relationship between auspices, power and ordines, and proposes, reaffirming the reliability of the Fasti Capitolini, that the picture offered by the literary sources is mostly the crystallized expression of the radicalization, in the central years of the fifth century BC, of the struggle of the orders.
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“Give your love full rein”: Mandragola, (Homo)Sexuality and Princely Virtue
This article provides an alternative, sexual reinterpretation of Machiavelli’s Mandragola from an alternative sexual perspective focusing on sodomy (in its sixteenth-century meaning), and especially male-male sexuality. In this reading, Messer Nicia is, put in today’s terms, a homosexual and, at the same time, surprisingly enough, the key, princely character in the play. Dri ven by a desire to establish a new, less oppressive familial order, Nicia is able to renew his corrupted family by means of a conspiracy aimed at liberating Lucrezia’s sexuality from the restraints of the dominant morality. Mandragola constitutes an intrinsic part of Machiavelli’s political project, showing how the explosion of sexual desire beyond the confines of dominant heteronormative morality can serve as a productive way of expressing plebeian desire not to be oppressed and commanded by the great, which proves beneficial to all.
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Nobis adeo propria sunt auspicia
The literary sources flaunt the absolute monopoly exercised by the patriciate on magistracies and auspicia, an image that the doctrine tends, dogmatically and often uncritically, to accept. The paper recontextualizes, following its diachronic development (from ‘Romulus’ to the 4th century BC), the relationship between auspices, power and ordines, and proposes, reaffirming the reliability of the Fasti Capitolini, that the picture offered by the literary sources is mostly the crystallized expression of the radicalization, in the central years of the fifth century BC, of the struggle of the orders.
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Los decenviratos. Una reflexión crítica
El decenvirato es una comisión formada durante los conflictos sociales a fin de escribir las leyes de la ciudad de Roma (451-449 a.C.). El resultado de su trabajo fueron las famosas Leyes de las XII Tablas, las que, de acuerdo a Livio, son el fundamento de todo el Derecho público y privado (Liv. A.U.C. 3.34.6). Además, el decenvirato contiene algunos de los más interesantes dramas de la Historia Antigua, como el intento de violación de Virginia, la segunda secesión y la restauración de la República. Como suele suceder con la Roma Arcaica, todo lo que rodea a los decenviratos es dudoso, especialmente por una cierta falta de coherencia en la historia, lo cual se suma a la improbabilidad de las fuentes. No obstante, detrás de la niebla histórica, Podemos detector ciertos hechos sólidos en la tradición que pueden ayudarnos a comprender el papel de los legisladores en la perspectiva romana.
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Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic
Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic analyses the political role of the masses in a profoundly aristocratic society. Constitutionally the populus Romanus wielded almost unlimited powers, controlling legislation and the election of officials, a fact which has inspired 'democratic' readings of the Roman republic. In this book a distinction is drawn between the formal powers of the Roman people and the practical realization of these powers. The question is approached from a quantitative as well as a qualitative perspective, asking how large these crowds were, and how their size affected their social composition. Building on those investigations, the different types of meetings and assemblies are analysed. The result is a picture of the place of the masses in the running of the Roman state, which challenges the 'democratic' interpretation, and presents a society riven by social conflicts and a widening gap between rich and poor.
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Augustus and His Presentation of the People in the Res Gestae
This article offers an in-depth examination of Augustus’ presentation of the people of Rome in his Res Gestae. Augustus was careful to craft an image of himself as the legitimate ruler of the Roman Empire which is illustrated by his precise use and intentional choice of words such as populus and plebs in certain passages in his testament. By continuing the established language of power he was clearly able to place himself within the traditions while simultaneously manipulating conventional political language into a mode of communication that served his own position of sole rule.
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Die politische Rolle der stadtrömischen Plebs in der Kaiserzeit
Die politische Rolle der stadtrömischen Plebs in der Kaiserzeit uses focused source criticism to assess the works of Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio Cassius, and others and deliver new insights both into the narrative functions and historical actions of the Roman people. In Die politische Rolle der stadtrömischen Plebs in der Kaiserzeit werden durch einen quellenkritischen Zugang, insbesondere zu den Werken des Tacitus, Sueton und Cassius Dio, neue Einsichten sowohl in die narrativen Funktionen des Volkes als auch in dessen historische Aktivitäten ermöglicht.
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Rome et l’Italie de la guerre sociale à la mort de César : une nouvelle citoyenneté. État de la recherche
La fin de la guerre sociale fut marquée par l’intégration dans la citoyenneté romaine des Italiens qui n’en bénéficiaient pas encore. Le processus était d’importance car il contribuait de façon décisive à la transformation de Rome de cité-état aristocratique en empire monarchique. L’organisation municipale s’imposait à l’échelle de la péninsule et généralisait un principe de double citoyenneté, locale et romaine, condition de son extension future. Parallèlement l’augmentation du nombre des citoyens aggravait une segmentation du peuple romain telle que certaines de ses parties, les soldats et la plèbe urbaine notamment, se distinguaient comme des citoyens par excellence et se gagnaient des modes d’intervention spécifiques. Les pratiques politiques qui furent celles de l’Empire se mettaient ainsi en place. L’examen de l’historiographie de ces vingt dernières années permet d’appréhender les différents aspects de cette évolution. The end of the Social war was marked by the social integration into Roman citizenship of Italians who did not yet enjoy it. The process was of utmost important because it contributed decisively to the transformation of Rome from aristocratic city-state to monarchical empire. The municipal organization prevailed all across the peninsula and generalized the principle of dual citizenship, local and Roman – a condition of its future expansion. At the same time, segmentation of the Roman people was compounded by the increase in the number of citizens. As a result, some of its parts, soldiers and urban plebs in particular, stood out as citizens par excellence and earned for themselves specific modes of action. The political practices that later prevailed in the Empire were thereby being rolled out. Reviewing the historiography over the past twenty years provides insights into different aspects of this development.
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