TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arena,Valentina
TI  - Libertas and the practice of politics in the late Roman Republic
SN  - 9781139625746
AV  - JC85.L53 A74 2012eb
U1  - 320.93709/014 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Liberty
KW  - History
KW  - Political science
KW  - Rome
KW  - Liberté
KW  - Histoire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - fast
KW  - Freiheit
KW  - gnd
KW  - Politik
KW  - Libertas
KW  - gtt
KW  - Romeinse republiek
KW  - Republic, 265-30 B.C
KW  - 265-30 B.C
KW  - 265-30 av. J.-C. (République)
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - 265-30 av. J.-C
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Roman libertas; Chapter 2 The citizens' political liberty; Chapter 3 The liberty of the commonwealth; The liberty of the commonwealth: the 'optimate' tradition; The liberty of the commonwealth: the 'popularis' tradition; Chapter 4 The political struggle in the first century bc; The imperia extraordinaria; The so-called 'senatus consultum ultimum'; Agrarian distributions; Chapter 5 Political response and the need for legitimacy; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index
N2  - "This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on the means allowing for the preservation and the loss of libertas. Considering the interplay of these traditions in the political debates of the first century BC, Dr Arena offers a significant reinterpretation of the political struggles of the time as well as a radical reappraisal of the role played by the idea of liberty in the practice of politics. She argues that, as a result of its uses in rhetorical debates, libertas underwent a form of conceptual change at the end of the Republic and came to legitimize a new course of politics, which led progressively to the transformation of the whole political system"--
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