Remembering the Roman People: Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature by Wiseman, T. P

NY: Oxford University Press, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 271 pages. In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil war. Clean copy. Record # 385390

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, ix, 271 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Grey-yellow spine with black and brown lettering. Dust jacket has very mild wear to spine head. Textblock has very faint staining on head and front edges. Shelved in ND-E. 1377999. FP New Rockville Stock.

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