Robert Morstein‐Marx
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Morstein‐Marx |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Morstein‐Marx |
| SIGNATURE | MARX R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Paradox of Voting: Extra-Urban Voters in the Late Roman Republic
It is almost universally supposed on general principles that Roman citizens who did not live near the city of Rome were effectively disenfranchised by the logistical difficulty of traveling to the capital to vote, and thus that citizen participation in state decision-making was derisively small; this poses a difficulty for the ‘popular’ model of the functioning of the Roman Republic that has won considerable adherence in recent years. However, a …
Julius Caesar and the Roman People
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate ci…
‘Cultural Hegemony’ and the Communicative Power of the Roman Elite
This chapter examines legislative practice at the end of the Republic to determine what was normal within this system. It presents a list of those laws that were passed by the popular assembly against significant opposition from within the Senate in the Late Republic (between c. 140 and c. 50 BC), which shows that the Roman populus was far from docile in this period. Passage of a law is the point at which debate becomes practice, and if the “stee…
Consular appeals to the army in 88 and 87: The locus of legitimacy in late-republican Rome
In mid-March of 49, Cicero was in anguish over what to do now that Pompey had crossed to Greece and Caesar was pressing him for support or at least neutrality. His personal obligation to Pompey weighed heavily with him, he writes, but on the other hand he represents joining Pompey as committing himself to fight a civil war with Sullan vindictiveness and ferocity. From Formiae he writes to Atticus on March 18 that he was deterred from joining Pomp…
The Transformation of the Republic
A Companion to the Roman Republic
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic
This book highlights the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. Against the background of the debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. The book analyses the ideology of Republican mass or…
The Myth of Numidian Origins in Sallust's African Excursus ( Iugurtha 17.7-18.12)
The excursus on the ethnography and geography of North Africa in Sallust's Iugurtha (17-19) has lately attracted much attention. Until recently there seemed to be little to say but that it demarcated the structure of the narrative and relieved the reader with "Greek erudition and fancies." 1 On one level, that is surely true enough, and consistent with the conventions of Roman historiography. 2 But a series of more probing studies of aspects of t…
The Alleged "Massacre" at Cirta and Its Consequences (Sallust Bellum Iugurthinum 26-27)
The Myth of Numidian Origins in Sallust's African Excursus ( Iugurtha 17.7-18.12)
The excursus on the ethnography and geography of North Africa in Sallust's Iugurtha (17-19) has lately attracted much attention. Until recently there seemed to be little to say but that it demarcated the structure of the narrative and relieved the reader with "Greek erudition and fancies." 1 On one level, that is surely true enough, and consistent with the conventions of Roman historiography. 2 But a series of more probing studies of aspects of t…
The Alleged "Massacre" at Cirta and Its Consequences (Sallust Bellum Iugurthinum 26-27)
The Alleged "Massacre" at Cirta and Its Consequences (Sallust Bellum Iugurthinum 26-27)
The Myth of Numidian Origins in Sallust's African Excursus ( Iugurtha 17.7-18.12)
The excursus on the ethnography and geography of North Africa in Sallust's Iugurtha (17-19) has lately attracted much attention. Until recently there seemed to be little to say but that it demarcated the structure of the narrative and relieved the reader with "Greek erudition and fancies." 1 On one level, that is surely true enough, and consistent with the conventions of Roman historiography. 2 But a series of more probing studies of aspects of t…
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic
This book highlights the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. Against the background of the debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. The book analyses the ideology of Republican mass or…
The Transformation of the Republic
A Companion to the Roman Republic
Consular appeals to the army in 88 and 87: The locus of legitimacy in late-republican Rome
In mid-March of 49, Cicero was in anguish over what to do now that Pompey had crossed to Greece and Caesar was pressing him for support or at least neutrality. His personal obligation to Pompey weighed heavily with him, he writes, but on the other hand he represents joining Pompey as committing himself to fight a civil war with Sullan vindictiveness and ferocity. From Formiae he writes to Atticus on March 18 that he was deterred from joining Pomp…
‘Cultural Hegemony’ and the Communicative Power of the Roman Elite
This chapter examines legislative practice at the end of the Republic to determine what was normal within this system. It presents a list of those laws that were passed by the popular assembly against significant opposition from within the Senate in the Late Republic (between c. 140 and c. 50 BC), which shows that the Roman populus was far from docile in this period. Passage of a law is the point at which debate becomes practice, and if the “stee…
Julius Caesar and the Roman People
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate ci…
Paradox of Voting: Extra-Urban Voters in the Late Roman Republic
It is almost universally supposed on general principles that Roman citizens who did not live near the city of Rome were effectively disenfranchised by the logistical difficulty of traveling to the capital to vote, and thus that citizen participation in state decision-making was derisively small; this poses a difficulty for the ‘popular’ model of the functioning of the Roman Republic that has won considerable adherence in recent years. However, a …
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