Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome During the Late Republic and Early Principate

by CH. Wirszubski

Book Overview

This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan, a period in which the Republican constitution gradually gave way and was finally superceded by the Principate which, in its own turn, considerably changed during the first century AD. Libertas, while identified with the republican constitution during the Republican period, continued to be a popular slogan and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521044685
• ISBN13: 9780521044684
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"