The crowd in Rome in the late Republic / Fergus Millar.
Millar, Fergus.
1998
DG254.2 .M55 1998 (Mapit)
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Title The crowd in Rome in the late Republic / Fergus Millar.
Author Millar, Fergus.
ISBN 0472108921 (acid-free paper)
9780472108923 (acid-free paper)
0472088785 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472088782 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0472084895
9780472084890
Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Language English
Description xvi, 236 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number DG254.2 .M55 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 937/.05
Summary 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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Series Jerome lectures ; 22nd ser.
Available in Other Form Crowd in Rome in the late Republic.
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I. Approaches and Interpretations
II. The Roman Crowd in Perspective: Historical Background and Contemporary Setting
III. Popular Politics in the 70s: The Demand for the Restoration of Sovereignty
IV. The Crowd, Oratory, and Imperialism, 69-65
V. Oratory, Disorder, and Social Problems, 64-60
VI. Empire, Legislation, and Political Violence, 59-56
VII. Popular Politics in Decline, 55-50
VIII. The Crowd in Rome: What Sort of Democracy?

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