Year: 2020
Type: book-review
Abstract: Is it altogether fitting and proper that a critical assessment of a book on the political system of the late Roman Republic should begin with an allusion to Abraham Lincoln, his Gettysburg Address and its famous final phrase?After all, Fergus Millar (Μ.) himself -in the second of a series of articles* 1 which initiated a lively and still ongoing debate on the political culture of the res publica2 -claimed that it was not his intention 'to attempt to restore the Roman people to their proper place in the history of democratic values'although the 'elements of a popular, even a democratic, tradition and * I should like to thank Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp and Uwe Walter for valuable suggestions. 1 'The Political Character o f the Classical Roman Republic, 200-151 B.C.', JRS 74 (1984), 1-19; 'Politics, Persuasion and the People before the Social War (150-90 Β Ὀ .)',JRS 76 (1986), 1-11; 'Political Power in Mid-Republican Rome: Curia or Comitium?' JRS 79 (1989), 138-50; 'Popular Politics at Rome in the Late Republic', in Leaders and Masses in the Roman World.Studies in honor o f Ζ. Yavetz, ed.I. Malkin, Ψ.Ζ.Rubinsohn, Leiden 1995, 91-113 (quoted as Μ. 1984; 1986; 1989; 1995); id., 'The Roman Libertus and Civic Freedom', Arethusa 28 (1995), 99-104. 2 Cf.most recently E. Flaig, 'Repenser le politique dans la République romaine', Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 105 (Dec.1994), 13-25; Α. Yakobson, 'Mid-Republican Rome and Popular Politics' (review article on R.F.
Source: Scripta Classica Israelica
Author: Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Institution: University of Cologne
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W140119792