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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Roman Republic"”.
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Empire and poetry in the Roman republic
… and empire in the last two centuries of the Roman republic. I bring together republican Latin poetry and historical approaches to Roman imperialism in a kind of Saidian ‘contrapuntal reading’. This allows new insights into the poetry of Lucilius and Catullus, and advances our understanding of …
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Politicising Manumission and Freedmen in the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate
… enslaved persons were an integral part of Roman society. Our surviving sources, however, paint a deeply hostile view of freedmen in particular and this warped representation of reality has often been accepted by scholars without further examination. This thesis argues that we can only fully …
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The development of the notion of libraries in the ancient world with special reference to the Middle East, the Roman Republic and the Royal Alexandrian Library
… of Hellenistic librarianship as inherited by the Roman Republic, since the newly emerging Roman empire was to exert a deciding influence upon the historical development of the RAL. Within these civilizations and regions a brief overview is undertaken to gauge the extent of literacy and literary …
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Play in the Roman imagination
This thesis traces a discourse of play in the Roman republic from Plautus’ *palliata* comedies via Lucilius’ satires to Cicero’s philosophical dialogue *De oratore*. Methodologically, it combines philological close reading with historical analysis to interpret the function of appeals to play in the …
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Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
… of fiscal dissertation to the study of the Roman Republic. I argue that the creation of a profitable empire allowed the ruling elite to end their reliance on domestic taxation to fund state activity, and that Rome's untaxed citizens were effectively disenfranchised as a result. They …
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A Study of Political Borders and Their Formation in the Hellenistic Period
… Seleucid, Ptolemaic, Antigonid, Attalid and Roman contexts? The aims of this dissertation are threefold, firstly, to analyse the different border models in operation during the Hellenistic period; secondly, to assess whether it is possible to give an account of how borders developed on a …
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The Nation as a Communicative Construct: Toward a Theory of Dialogic Nationalism
… as Isocrates in Ancient Greece and Cicero in the Roman Republic; through Kant, the Enlightenment and modernity; and, through postmodern interpretations, I attempt to reconceptualize the nation as a communicative construct while pointing to what may lie ahead for the future. By applying Anderson's …
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The neo-Roman conception of freedom in developmentalism: A historical perspective
… it embeds a conception of freedom known as neo-Roman freedom, distinct from that of the liberal tradition and more recently, the capability approach. To this end, the writings of four key periods/schools in the developmentalist tradition, that form the case studies of this paper, are reviewed. …
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A Culture in Denial: The Roman Cultural Relationship with Human Sacrifice
The Romans denied practicing human sacrifice, and claimed that almost every civilisation around them practised it, with it being an integral part in differentiating the Romans with everyone else; this self perception is deeply flawed. This work endeavours to grapple with the concept of human …
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The Shadow of the comet : divine patronage in the rise of Augustus by Dora Y. Gao.
… young man dedicated to the traditions of the Roman Republic and won him the early support of the people, the legions, and the Senate. This image persisted through the 30s and became far preferable to that of the drunk and eastern Marc Antony when Octavian began to associate himself with the …
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Constructing Historical Realism : International Relations as Comparative History
… the political reproduction, and failure, of the Roman Republic, and political reproduction in early medieval western Europe.
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The contribution of warlordism to the disintegration of the western Roman army (c. AD 395-480)
… changing nature of the leadership of the western Roman army in the fifth century through the concept of ‘warlordism’. I carried this out by analyzing those cases of insubordination and military unrest in the officer class of the western Roman army, which can be shown to be linked to the slow …
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Transatlantic Italy and Anglo-American Periodical Writing, 1848-1865
… in The Atlantic Monthly, The Springfield Daily Republican and other nineteenth–century publications, and it does so through contextualised readings of Arthur Hugh Clough, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson. These three seemingly very disparate authors are connected by The Atlantic …
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The History of Greek and Roman Historiography
The development of Greek and Roman historiography is difficult to describe. So many ancient histories are lost and those that survive are hardly representative. In this thesis I argue that despite these difficulties some historiographical trends remain discernible, and examine three such …
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Men of Letters: The Oratorical and Philosophical Relationship Between Cicero and Brutus
… Brutus did not agree on how best to serve the Republic, and the few extant letters between them, the <italic>Epistulae ad Brutum</italic>, are filled with frustration. This dissertation proceeds chronologically and can be divided into two halves. The first half, Chapters One and Two, deal with …
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The Fragmented Republicanism of Nineteenth-Century Italy (c. 1830s-1880s)
In this thesis, I argue that republican political thought was significant in nineteenth-century Italy, though it was fragmented. To demonstrate this, I analyse the works of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869), Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (1808-1871), Francesco De Sanctis …
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DECUS POSTERITAS REPENDIT: Reevaluating Cremutius Cordus in Tacitus' Annals
… death of Aulus Cremutius Cordus (A. 4.34-35), a Roman historian documenting the transitional period from the Roman Republic to the Empire. In this account Cordus is given a speech with which he defends a historian’s right to praise the enemies of the emperor. The majority of modern scholars have …
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