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Book The Gracchan Reforms and Why Rome Wasn t Ready  Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

Download or read book The Gracchan Reforms and Why Rome Wasn t Ready Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus written by Seth Carter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject World History - Antiquity, Indiana University (College of Arts and Sciences), course: SP16-BL-HIST-J300-8627 "The Fall of the Roman Republic", language: English, abstract: This brief research paper is intended as a rudimentary historical analysis of the immediate political, societal, and economic effects from 133 to 121 BC of the political and policy-oriented measures undertaken by tribunes Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus within the Roman Republic. The argument forwarded by the paper asserts that, had the Gracchi been more receptive to political compromise and less audacious in their policy pursuits, that more gradual reforms of Roman agrarian policy would have likely been more attainable. Academic resources utilized for the paper's formation include "Shotter, D. The Fall of the Roman Republic. London: Routledge, 1996," and, "Mackay, Christopher S. The Breakdown of the Roman Republic: From Oligarchy to Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009," as well as the primary accounts of Greek chronicler Plutarch.

Book Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth

Download or read book Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth written by Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a broad chronological sweep, this book provides an historical account of Roman law and legal institutions which explains how they were created and modified in relation to political developments and changes in power relations. It underlines the constant tension between two central aspects of Roman politics: the aristocratic nature of the system of government, and the drive for increased popular participation in decision-making and the exercise of power. The traditional balance of power underwent a radical transformation under Augustus, with new processes of integration and social mobility brought into play. Professor Capogrossi Colognesi brings into sharp relief the deeply political nature of the role of Roman juridical science as an expression of aristocratic politics and discusses the imperial jurists' fundamental contribution to the production of an outline theory of sovereignty and legality which would constitute, together with Justinian's gathering of Roman legal knowledge, the most substantial legacy of Rome.

Book Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic

Download or read book Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic written by Andrew William Lintott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve fragments of bronze were found near Urbino in the late fifteenth century, engraved with Roman laws. Dr Lintott offers a complete re-edition of these complicated and fragmentary texts.

Book The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic written by Harriet I. Flower and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Book Mortal Republic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward J. Watts
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2018-11-06
  • ISBN : 0465093825
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Mortal Republic written by Edward J. Watts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.

Book The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Download or read book The Assassination of Julius Caesar written by Michael Parenti and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenti presents a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. As he carefully weighs the evidence in the murder of Caesar, he sketches in the background to the crime with fascinating detail about Roman society.

Book Roman Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1588392228
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Roman Art written by Nancy Lorraine Thompson and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.

Book Ad Tiberim  or  The Fall of the Gracchi

Download or read book Ad Tiberim or The Fall of the Gracchi written by Brewer Mattocks and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swords Against The Senate

Download or read book Swords Against The Senate written by Erik Hildinger and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century B.C., Rome was the ruler of a vast empire. Yet at the heart of the Republic was a fatal flaw: a dangerous hostility between the aristocracy and the plebians, each regarding itself as the foundation of Rome's military power. Turning from their foreign enemies, Romans would soon be fighting Romans.Swords Against the Senate describes the first three decades of Rome's century-long civil war that transformed it from a republic to an imperial autocracy, from the Rome of citizen leaders to the Rome of decadent emperor thugs. As the republic came apart amid turmoil, Gaius Marius, the "people's general," rose to despotic power only to be replaced by the brutal dictator Sulla. The Roman army, once invincible against foreign antagonists, became a tool for the powerful, and the Roman Senate its foe.

Book The Two Great Republics  Rome and the United States

Download or read book The Two Great Republics Rome and the United States written by James Hamilton Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States by James Hamilton Lewis

Book Rome s Fall Reconsidered

Download or read book Rome s Fall Reconsidered written by Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Land in the Roman Republic

Download or read book Public Land in the Roman Republic written by Saskia T. Roselaar and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume in this new series on Roman society and law, Saskia T. Roselaar traces the social and economic history of the ager publicus, or public land. As the Romans conquered Italy during the fourth to first centuries BC, they usually took land away from their defeated enemies and declared this to be the property of the Roman state. This land could be distributed to Roman citizens, but it could also remain in the hands of the state, in which case it was available for general public use. However, in the third and second centuries BC growth in the population of Italy led to an increased demand for land among both commercial producers and small farmers. This in turn led to the gradual privatization of the state-owned land, as those who held it wanted to safeguard their rights to it. Roselaar traces the currents in Roman economy and demography which led to these developments.

Book Cassius Dio   s Forgotten History of Early Rome

Download or read book Cassius Dio s Forgotten History of Early Rome written by Christopher Burden-Strevens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome brings together ten studies on the literary, historiographical, rhetorical, and generic and textual dimensions of the least explored section of Dio’s enormous history of Rome: Books 1–21.

Book The Roman Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald Syme
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2002-08-08
  • ISBN : 0191647187
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book The Roman Revolution written by Ronald Syme and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling.

Book The Story of Land

Download or read book The Story of Land written by John P. Powelson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romans   from village to empire

Download or read book The Romans from village to empire written by Mary Taliaferro Boatwright and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Romans unfolds Rome's remarkable evolution from village to monarchy and then republic and finally to one-man rule by an emperor whose power at its peak stretched from Scotland to Iraq and the Nile Valley. Firmly grounded in ancient literary and material sources, the book captures and analyzes the outstanding political and military landmarks from the Punic Wars, to Caesar's conquest of Gaul and his crossing of the Rubicon, to the victory of Octavian over Mark Antony, to Constantine's adoption of Christianity. Here too are some of the most fascinating individuals ever to walk across the world stage, including Hannibal, Mithridates, Pompey, Cicero, Cleopatra, Augustus, Livia, Nero, Marcus Aurelius, and Shapur. The authors bring to life many aspects of Rome's cultural and social history, from the role of women, to literature, entertainments, town-planning, portraiture, and religion. The book incorporates more than 30 maps."--Jacket.