Author: Wirszubski, Ch.
Title: Libertas as a Political Idea a Rome during the Late Republic & Early Principate
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1960). Reprint, orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi, 182 pp, Library cardpocket to rear flyleaf.Rubberstamp to title,rear flyleaf & two page bottom margins.. Tape marks to front & rear flyleaves, minor rubbing, Good+. dus ¶ Reprint of the 1950 edition. Contents: Prolegomena: Libertas - a Civic Right; Libertas & Civitas; Libertas Populi Romani; The Objective of this Study; General Characteristics of Libertas: Libertas - Leges; Aequa Libertas; Libertas & Dignitas; The Balance of Powers; The Rights of the Individual; Civil Discord: Optimates & Populares: The Backround of the Struggle; Major Points at Issue: a) Senatus Auctoritas; b) Leges Agrariae; c) Popular Sovereignty; d) Leges Tabellariae; e) Tribunicia Potestas; Equality of Opportunity for the Homines Novi; g) Senatus Consultum Ultimum;h) Potestates Extraordinariae; The Decline of the Traditional Form of Government: The Struggle of the Italians for Civic Rights; Subversive Factors; Contentio Libertatis Dignitatisque; The Foundation of Freedom in Cicero's Theory of Government; Libertas under Incipient Autocracy; Freedom versus Order & Security; The Augustan Principate in Relation to Libertas: Pax et Princeps; "Libertas Vindex": an Outworn Phrase; Res Publica Restituta in Theory & in Fact; Principatus et Libertas Res Olim Dissociabiles: The Nature of the Problem; Princeps Supra Leges; Libertas Senatus; Thrasea Paetus; Stoicism & Libertas; Helvidius Priscus; Clementia;Optimus Princeps; Adoptio; Libertas Publica & Securitas; What Libertas meant to Tacitus; Freedom under Tutelage.

Keywords: Political Philosophy, Rome, Libertas, Roman Republic, Civic Rights, , , ,