Author: MILLAR, FERGUS
Title: Rome, the Greek World, and the East Volume I: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
Description: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Hardcover. ISBN: 0807826642. Very light rubbing to boards. ; Xxii, 383pp, maps. ; Studies in the History of Greece and Rome; Vol. 1; 383 pages; Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: 0807826642 GREECE CIVILIZATION Roman History HISTORY ANCIENT Political Science Augustus


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