Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: As author of 5000+ articles on individuals and families in the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Friedrich Münzer must be considered the doyen of Republican prosopography. In his opus magnum, he proposed to reconstruct the formation and development of aristocratic ‹parties› or ‹factions›, based on ties of kinship, marriage and friendship between aristocratic families and incessantly contending with each other for ‹power› in the shape of the consulship. Though this model of ‹factional politics› was very influential until the 1960s, it was criticised in the latter half of the 20th century and is now generally considered obsolete.
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: W4414704950
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