{"product_id":"politics-and-society-in-imperial-rome-isbn-9781405179690","title":"Politics and Society in Imperial Rome","description":"\u003ci\u003ePolitics and Society in Imperial Rome\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  1. Introduction: Toward a New Interpretation of Imperial Rome.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Paradoxical Structures:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. \"State,\" \"Society,\" and Political Integration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Friendship and Patron–Client Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \"Public\" and \"Private\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Two Cases in Point:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. A Court without \"State.\" The \u003ci\u003eaula Caesaris.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Meaningful Madness. The Emperor Caligula.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Academic Approaches:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Theodor Mommsen’s Theory of \"Dyarchia\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Christian Meier’s \"Crisis without Alternative\" in Ancient Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: \" tahoma\u003e“This is, in a nutshell, the argument of Aloys Winterling in this stimulating collection of essays. Winterling's work is well known to German readers and this volume will hopefully bring the attention of a non\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;\"\u003e?]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: \" tahoma\u003eGerman audience to it. The articles collected in this volume span the last ten years, and although written on different occasions they show remarkable coherence. The thesis presented above is constantly restated from different points of view. Repetition is inevitable, but this is a minor fault: the author's arguments and methodology are new and sophisticated, and deserve to be well understood.” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: \" tahoma mso-fareast-font-family: new roman\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: \" tahoma new roman mso-fareast-font-family:=\"\"\u003e, May 2010)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAloys Winterling\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor for Ancient History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was previously Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel.  During the early days of Imperial Rome, Augustus characterized himself as 'the restorer of the \u003ci\u003eRes publica'\u003c\/i\u003e. On the surface it appeared that the Roman Republic was indeed alive: Consuls were elected, tribunes legislated, and Senators engaged in heated debates in the Roman \u003ci\u003eCuria\u003c\/i\u003e. But the political integration of Roman society – with its deep social stratification marked by the pre-eminence of Senatorial nobility – was 'old'. And the role of the emperor and his patrimonial structure of imperial rule was 'new'. The consequences of these fundamentally incompatible structures and systems would have profound implications for the future of Imperial Rome.  \u003cp\u003eUsing this fundamental contradiction between the political order of the republic and patrimonial-based imperial rule as a point of departure, \u003ci\u003ePolitics and Society in Imperial Rome\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh new interpretations of Rome's imperial era. The essays begin by replicating the paradoxes that were founded in the historical reality of Imperial Rome. Two case studies are then examined in the book's second section: the imperial court and political actions taken during Caligula's reign. Bold academic approaches of the classical historians Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier are then explored in the book's final section. Original and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003ePolitics and Society in Imperial Rome\u003c\/i\u003e shines a bright new light on the complexities and contradictions of the glory that was Imperial Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This valuable book offers a fresh examination of the structure of Roman imperial government. By concentrating on the dual aspect of the imperial regime—the one part descending from the institutions of the Republic, the other emerging from the household of the emperors—Winterling frames his issue with admirable clarity.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Potter\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Michigan","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989806694629,"sku":"NP9781405179690","price":33.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405179690.jpg?v=1761785539","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/politics-and-society-in-imperial-rome-isbn-9781405179690","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}