Approaching the Roman Revolution
Papers on Republican History
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2016
512 pages
978-0-19-107975-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume collects twenty-six previously unpublished studies on Republican history by the late Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), drawn from the archive of Syme's papers at the Bodleian Library. This set of papers sheds light on aspects of Republican history that were either overlooked or tangentially discussed in Syme's published work. They range across a wide spectrum of topics, including the political history of the second century BC, the age of Sulla, the conspiracy of Catiline, problems of constitutional law, and the Roman conquest of Umbria. Each of them makes a distinctive contribution to specific historical problems. Taken as a whole, they enable us to reach a more comprehensive assessment of Syme's intellectual and historiographical profile.
The papers are preceded by an introduction that places them within the context of Syme's work and of the current historiography on the Roman Republic, and are followed by a full set of bibliographical addenda.
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Federico Santangelo is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. He is the author of Sulla, the Elites and Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (2007) and Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2013), and the co-editor, with J. H. Richardson, of The Roman Historical Tradition: Regal and Republican Rome (OUP, 2014).
Content
- 1: The Divorce of Aemilius Paullus
- 2: The Predominance of the Fulvii
- 3: The Politics of the Marcii
- 4: The Abdication of Sulla
- 5: The Speech for Roscius of Ameria
- 6: M. Aemilius Lepidus (cos. 78 BC)
- 7: Satellites of Sulla
- 8: The Unspeakable Fufidius
- 9: Rex Leptasta
- 10: Sallust and Bestia
- 11: Rome and Arpinum
- 12: The Consular Elections 70-66 BC
- 13: Catilina's Three Marriages
- 14: Crassus, Catilina, and the Vestal Virgins
- 15: Sallust on Crassus
- 16: Sallust's List of Conspirators
- 17: P. Sulla cos. cand. 66 BC
- 18: The Gay Sempronia
- 19: The End of the Fulvii
- 20: Caesar as pontifex maximus
- 21: Cicero's Change of Plan
- 22: Nicolaus of Damascus XXVIII and XXXI
- 23: Virgil's First Patron
- 24: Caesar and Augustus in Virgil
- 25: How many fasces?
- 26: Rome and Umbria
