Aus dem Inhalt: W. Eder: Der Buerger und sein Staat / Der Staat und seine Buerger. Eine Einleitung � Sektion I: Politik und Religion, mit Beitr�gen von: Jerzy Linderski, Paul M.Martin, Mario Torelli � Sektion II: Quellen und Quellenkritik, mit Beitr�gen von: Juergen von Ungern-Sternberg, RonaldT. Ridley, Gabriella Poma, Elizabeth Rawson �, Jean-Claude Richard, Wilhelm Kierdorf � Sektion III: Interdisziplin�re und vergleichende Methoden, mit Beitr�gen von: Jochen Martin, Ed-ward Ch. L. van der Vliet, J�rgen C. Meyer, Robert W. Wallace, Sarah C. Humphreys � Sektion IV: Recht und Verfassung, mit Beitr�gen von: Leo Peppe, Giuliano Crif�, Dieter Timpe, Hartmut Galsterer � Sektion V: Magistratur und Gesellschaft, mit Beitr�gen von: Adalberto Giovannini, Karl-Joachim H�lkeskamp, Ernst Badian � Sektion VI: Wirtschaft, Expansion und innere Entwicklung, mit Beitr�gen von: Carmine Ampolo, William V. Harris, Kurt Raaflaub � Literaturverzeichnis, Quellenverzeichnis, Index geographischer Begriffe, Index antiker Namen, Index moderner Autoren.

This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now been enhanced by a new chapter on material culture, updates to individual chapters, an updated bibliography, and a new introduction. Analyzes social conflicts between patricians and plebeians in early republican Rome Includes chapters by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic illuminating social, economic, legal, religious, military, and political aspects as well as the reliability of historical sources Contributors have written addenda for the new edition, updating their chapters in light of recent scholarship

A very readable introduction exploring much-contested issues and debates, and providing an original synthesis of this important topic.

An inviting exploration of Rome's founding centuries

Rather than looking at particular individuals and personalities in Roman politics, Stewart focuses on the religious institution of the allotment of duties among elected officials. She traces the definition of allotments and their historical development with examples from the Reforms of 444, 406 and 367 BC.

In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography. Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.

Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became