Politics and Society in Imperial Rome
Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era.
  • Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic
  • Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society
  • Includes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier
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Politics and Society in Imperial Rome
Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era.
  • Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic
  • Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society
  • Includes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier
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Politics and Society in Imperial Rome

Politics and Society in Imperial Rome

by Aloys Winterling
Politics and Society in Imperial Rome

Politics and Society in Imperial Rome

by Aloys Winterling

Overview

Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era.
  • Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic
  • Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society
  • Includes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781405179690
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 07/20/2009
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Aloys Winterling is Professor for Ancient History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was previously Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Toward a New Interpretation of Imperial Rome.

Part I: Paradoxical Structures:

2. "State," "Society," and Political Integration.

3. Friendship and Patron–Client Relations.

4. "Public" and "Private".

Part II: Two Cases in Point:

5. A Court without "State." The aula Caesaris.

6. Meaningful Madness. The Emperor Caligula.

Part III: Academic Approaches:

7. Theodor Mommsen’s Theory of "Dyarchia".

8. Christian Meier’s "Crisis without Alternative" in Ancient Rome.

Editorial Note.

Index.

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"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."
–David Potter, University of Michigan

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