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The Cambridge Companion to the
Roman Republic examines
many aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509 to 49 B.C. The key
development of the republican period was Rome's rise from small city to a
wealthy metropolis and international capital of an extensive Mediterranean
empire. These centuries produced the classic republican political system and
the growth of a world empire. They also witnessed the ultimate disintegration
of this system under the relentless pressure of internal dissension and the
boundless ambitions of its leading politicians. In this Companion volume,
distinguished European and American scholars present a variety of lively
current approaches to understanding the political, military, and social
aspects of Roman history as well as its literary and visual culture. Designed
to be accessible to the general reader and to students, The Cambridge
Companion to the Roman Republic will invite further exploration of a
vital formative period of Roman history and its later influence.
Harriet I. Flower is associate professor
of classics at Princeton University. The author of Ancestor
Masks and Aristocratic Tradition in Roman Culture, she has written on
aspects of Roman history and drama as well as Latin epigraphy.
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