Julius Caesar and the Roman People

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ID19919985
AuthorsRobert Morstein‐Marx (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author), Robert Morstein-Marx
Year2021
Publication date2021-08-26
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueJulius Caesar and the Roman People (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108943260
OpenAlexW3144995962
Open LibraryOL35577953M
ISBN9781108943260
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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 civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on painstaking re-analysis of the ancient sources in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the participatory role of the People in the republican political system, a strong emphasis on agents' choices rather than structural causation, and profound scepticism toward the facile determinism that often substitutes for historical explanation, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound historical importance who stands at the turning point of Roman history from Republic to Empire

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Autocracy · Democracy · Emperor · Epistemology · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · Skepticism · The Republic · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · ancient · Influence · Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) · Italy · Kings and rulers · Military history · Political leadership · politics and government

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