Spheres of Control : The Origins of Government in Early Rome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drogula, Fred K.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

In Spheres of Control, Fred K. Drogula argues that understanding Roman historiography makes it possible to identify and remove many of the most common errors, anachronisms, and fictions that appear in narrative traditions of Roman history. He also argues that--once any erroneous material is removed from traditional accounts--the remaining information not only maps easily onto the new historical framework, but doing so creates a more logical and cohesive reconstruction of Rome's early development and resolves many problems that scholars have identified with the existing narrative tradition. Drogula shows that a new reconstruction of the development of government in early Rome can be found by removing material from the traditional narratives that is likely to be erroneous and by recontextualizing the material that remains into a framework based on archaeological discoveries and new readings of ancient texts.

Contents:

Cover

Spheres of Control : The Origins of Government in Early Rome

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

1: Unframing the Past

Records and Documents of Early Rome

What Did Fabius Pictor and His Contemporaries Know about Early Rome?

Methodological Problems in the Writing of Rome's Early History

Conclusion

2: The Peoples of Earliest Rome

The Urban Communities

The Gentes

The Relationships Between the Gentes and the Urban Population

3: Rethinking the Reges and their Disappearance

The Rex

What Was the Regal Senate?

Reforms Attributed to Servius Tullius

The Expulsion of the Monarchy-a Non-Event?

4: The Early Republic

Public Affairs in the Sphere Militiae During the Early Republic

Struggles for Leadership in the Sphere Domi in the Early Republic

The Development of Urban Magistrates

Patricians and Plebeians

5: The Republican State Develops

The Twelve Tables

Negotiations Within the Sphere Domi

Connecting the Spheres Domi and Militiae

The Licinio-Sextian Laws

6: The Development of the Patricio-Plebeian Senate

An Incomplete Joining of the Spheres of Governance

Integrating Plebeian Leaders into the New Aristocracy

The Lex Ovinia and the Consolidation of the Senate as an Institution of State

Consolidation and Expanding Powers of the Senate

7: Polybius Comes to Rome

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-778982-X

0-19-778984-6

OCLC:

1581197900