POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE: WHAT COUNTS AS EVIDENCE?

This contribution vindicates Fergus Millar's argument in The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (1998) against critics who assume a priori that the republic was always and necessarily a hierarchical society ruled by an oligarchy, and that the populus Romanus had no time for politics and no interest...

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Publicado en:Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 16 - 34
Autor principal: WISEMAN, T. P.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2017
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