The Constitution of the Roman Republic

Fellow and Reader in Ancient History Andrew Lintott
Clarendon Press
9780198150688
0-19-815068-7

There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential.

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growth of Rome's empire. Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment.