@article{1380794,
      recid = {1380794},
      author = {Millar, Fergus.},
      title = {The crowd in Rome in the late Republic /},
      publisher = {University of Michigan Press,},
      address = {Ann Arbor :},
      pages = {xvi, 236 pages :},
      year = {1998},
      note = {Slightly expanded version of the five Jerome lectures  given at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1993  and at the American Academy in Rome, 1994.},
      abstract = {The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic explores the  consequences of a democracy in which public office could  only be gained by direct election by the people. And while  the Senate could indeed debate public matters, advise other  officeholders, and make some administrative decisions, it  could not legislate. An officeholder who wanted to pass a  law had to step out of the Senate-house and propose it to  the people in the Forum. In an expansion and revision of  his Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures, Fergus Millar explores  the development of the Roman Republic, which by its final  years had come to cover most of Italy. To exercise their  rights, voters had to come to Rome (or to live in or near  the city as about one third of them did) and to meet in the  Forum. Millar takes the period from 80 to 50 B.C., the  dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon,  and shows how crowd politics was central to the great  changes that took place year after year. The volume will  interest general readers, as well as students of politics  and Roman history. Technical terms are explained, and  foreign words are kept to a minimum.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1380794},
}