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University of Michigan Press (1964), 128 pages
Description
The story unfolds against a background of wars, financial tangles, shifting foreign policy, and personal rivalries. Sir Frank finds the secret of Roman power in the dignity of its great men and the liberty of the small. Though centuries have elapsed since the Caesars, we need not look far to discover in our own day the same conflicts between personal ambition and the dream of peace with dignity that consumed Rome. This book underscores the fragility of all political institutions, including our own.
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LibraryThing member thcson
This is a short collection of lectures on Roman political history. It zooms from the early republic to the 200 AD in the space of 100 short pages. The first half of the book focuses on the functions of various political offices in the republic and the second on how political customs were abandoned
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in the civil war and how Augustus then built new ones and refashioned old ones around his own person. Although the author makes a few good points along the way the presentation as a whole is much too superficial to give the reader a good understanding of this topic. I'm sure the audience enjoyed hearing these lectures, but I'm not so sure if they really needed to be published in printed form. Show Less
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Original language
English
Physical description
128 p.; 5 inches
ISBN
0472060880 / 9780472060887