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Auteur(s) : Arena, Valentina (1972-....)
Titre(s) : Libertas and the practice of politics in the late Roman Republic [Texte imprimé] / Valentina Arena
Publication : Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : ix, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 1. Roman libertas ; 2. The citizens' political liberty ; 3. The liberty of the
commonwealth ; 4. The political struggle in the first century BC ; 5. Political
response and the need for legitimacy ; Epilogue.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-311) and index
"This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses
in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political
thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought,
it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on the means allowing for the preservation
and the loss of libertas. Considering the interplay of these traditions in the political
debates of the first century BC, Dr Arena offers a significant reinterpretation of
the political struggles of the time as well as a radical reappraisal of the role played
by the idea of liberty in the practice of politics. She argues that, as a result of
its uses in rhetorical debates, libertas underwent a form of conceptual change at
the end of the Republic and came to legitimize a new course of politics, which led
progressively to the transformation of the whole political system"
Sujet(s) : Culture politique -- Rome -- 1er siècle av. J.-C.
Idées politiques -- Rome -- 1er siècle av. J.-C.
Politique et gouvernement -- Rome -- 1er siècle av. J.-C.
Vie intellectuelle -- Rome -- 264-30 av. J.-C.
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107028173 (hardback). - ISBN 1107028175 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43659410j
Notice n° :
FRBNF43659410
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