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Remembering the Roman people essays on late-Republican politics and literature

A challenging reinterpretation of the political culture of the last century of the Roman Republic. Wiseman argues that the People had their own egalitarian ethos, usually in conflict with the self-styled `best' (optimates), who, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the republic's breakdown in civil war.
eBook, English, 2011
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011
1 online resource ill.
9780191617010, 0191617016
1294615773
1. Roman History and the Ideological Vacuum ; 2. The Fall and Rise of Gaius Geta ; 3. Licinius Macer, Juno Moneta and Veiovis ; 4. Romulus' Rome of Equals ; 5. Macaulay on Cicero ; 6. Cicero and Varro ; 7. Marcopolis ; 8. The Political Stage ; 9. The Ethics of Murder ; 10. After the Ides of March ; Epilogue