Article: The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture.(Book review)

Article: Roman political thought and the modern theoretical ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2009 ;     451 words ...9780806139272 Roman political thought and the modern theoretical imagination. Hammer, Dean ... absent. He asks whether there is anything worth retrieving from Roman political thought by looking at how it has been portrayed by such thinkers ...

Article: The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political ...
Contemporary Review;  October 1, 2000 ;     608 words ... ... volume is to provide a fresh, critical account of Greek and Roman political thought from its beginning to ... c. AD 350'. What ... innovation'. The period covers the greatest names in Greek and Roman political philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics ...

Article: Democracy in Rome. (2,500 Years of Democracy)
History Today;  March 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... continuities, between the Greek and Roman political systems that should attract comment ... could apply his Greek theories to Roman political life, even if not always with convincing ... rather on the oligarchic aspects of the Roman political system. Work in the last two decades ...

Article: The Constitution of the Roman Republic.(Review) (book reviews)
History: Review of New Books;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... them the complexity and pertinence of roman political institutions during the Republic ... working of the three components of the Roman political system: the popular assemblies ... relevant in assessing the nature of the Roman political system, but he is more skeptical ...

Article: Patriotism
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas;      700+ words ... ... considerable wealth in land and were dominant in the older Roman political structure. Their property enabled wide-ranging political ... original use of the cognate terms patron and patronage. Early Roman political factions, as in later European monarchies, worked through ...

Article: Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families.(Review) (book review)
History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... especially in the fasti, recorded the victors of the constant Roman political infighting and that therefore the fasti are the records ... recognizes much greater fluctuation in the make-up of Roman political alliances. RONALD J. WEBER University of Texas at El Paso

Article: Ancient & modern
The Spectator;  August 15, 1998 ;     578 words ... ... Field found out and any Roman could have told you. All Roman political big shots surrounded themselves with cronies or (as they ... his big shot patronus was central to the working of the Roman political system. The relationship was voluntary, reciprocal (through ...