A community in transition : Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi / edited by Mattia Balbo and Federico Santangelo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balbo, Mattia, editor.

Santangelo, Federico, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"This volume gathers twelve studies on key aspects of the history of Rome and her empire between the end of the Hannibalic War (201 BCE) and the election of Tiberius Gracchus to the tribunate (134 BCE). Through this periodisation, which places the focus on what intervened between two major and well-studied historical turning points in Republican history, we aim to bring new light on the interplay between imperial expansion, political volatility, and intellectual developments, and to explore in detail the various levels on which historical change unfolded. There is no continuous ancient narrative for this period, even late or derivative, and this has shaped much of the historiographical discourse about it. Our working hypothesis is that through this prism we can both get a new sense of the depth and richness of the period and establish new connections among aspects of human agency and action that are usually considered in isolation from one another"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

1. Introduction: Whence and Whither?

Mattia Balbo and Federico Santangelo

2. Climate Change and Rome's Changing Republic

James Tan

3. The Agrarian Policy of the Senate between Hannibal and the Gracchi

Mattia Balbo

4. The Political Culture of Coinage: The Introduction and Development of the Denarius System

Marleen Termeer

5. Public Buildings and Urban Landscape: A View from the Riverfront

Francesca de Caprariis

6. Goodbye to All That: The Roman Citizen Militia after the Great Wars

Michael J. Taylor

7. The Administration of the Imperium Romanum in the Second Century bce

Michele Bellomo

8. Legislation, Politics, and Social Change in the Early Second Century bce

Thibaud Lanfranchi

9. Interactions between Tribunes and Senate

Annarosa Gallo

10. The Gentes Maiores and Aristocratic Competition in Rome (200-134 bce)

Cyrielle Landrea

11. The Arrival of Eloquence? The Changing Parameters of Public Speech in the Second Century

Catherine Steel

12. Beyond Conservatism: Charting Roman Religion between Hannibal and Scipio Nasica

Federico Santangelo

13. Epilogue-Periodization in Perspective: Further Thoughts about the Second Century bce

Harriet I. Flower

Index Locorum

General Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Community in transition

ISBN:

9780197655269

0197655262

9780197655276

0197655270

OCLC:

1334007947

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.