Social Struggles in Archaic Rome New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders,9781405100601

Social Struggles in Archaic Rome New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781405100601
ISBN10: 1405100605
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-09
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now been enhanced by a new chapter on material culture, updates to individual chapters, an updated bibliography, and a new introduction. Analyzes social conflicts between patricians and plebeians in early republican Rome Includes chapters by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic illuminating social, economic, legal, religious, military, and political aspects as well as the reliability of historical sources Contributors have written addenda for the new edition, updating their chapters in light of recent scholarship

Author Biography

Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History at Brown University. His recent publications include Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (co-authored, 2006), The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (co-edited, 1999), and Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (co-edited, 1998).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Editor's Preface to the Second Edition ix
Editor's Preface to the First Edition xvii
Chronological Table xxv
Abbreviations xxvii
The Conflict of the Orders in Archaic Rome: A Comprehensive and Comparative Approach
1(46)
Kurt A. Raaflaub
The Value of the Literary Tradition Concerning Archaic Rome
47(28)
Timothy J. Cornell
The Formation of the ``Annalistic Tradition'': The Example of the Decemvirate
75(23)
Jurgen von Ungern-Sternberg
The Contribution of Archaeology to Early Roman History
98(9)
Russell T. Scott
Patricians and Plebeians: The Origins of a Social Dichotomy
107(21)
Jean-Claude Richard
The Definition of patres and plebs: An End to the Struggle of the Orders
128(40)
Richard E. Mitchell
The Rise of the plebs in the Archaic Age of Rome
168(17)
Arnaldo Momigliano
From Protection and Defense to Offense and Participation: Stages in the Conflict of the Orders
185(38)
Kurt A. Raaflaub
Religious Aspects of the Conflict of the Orders: The Case of confarreatio
223(16)
Jerzy Linderski
The Political Significance of the Codification of Law in Archaic Societies: An Unconventional Hypothesis
239(29)
Walter Eder
The Tenth Table and the Conflict of the Orders
268(25)
Mark Toher
The Integration of the Plebeians into the Political Order after 366 B.C.
293(19)
Robert Develin
The End of the Conflict of the Orders
312(21)
Jurgen von Ungern-Sternberg
Bibliography 333(53)
Index of Subjects 386(11)
Index of Persons and Places 397(7)
Index of Scholars 404(4)
Index of Sources 408

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