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Journal Article
The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces by Daniel J. Gargola (review)
2018
Overview
Mommsen’s magisterial authority led several generations of scholars to imagine the republican government as a formal system of law-based institutions with fixed legal authorities organized in a defined hierarchy. Descriptions by ancient authors, methods of dividing time and space, and the ways religious cult, antiquarianism, and law shaped Rome’s self-conception all “emphasized the city itself over the territory that it dominated” (43). The third chapter argues that Italy held a special place in Rome’s spatial imagination, because “the Romans from the third century gave to it formal frontiers, imposed upon it a level of organization not found elsewhere in Rome’s empire, and raised from it the armies with which they would assert power more widely in the Mediterranean world” (83).
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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