Table of Contents
List of Maps x
List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xiv
Maps xix
Abbreviations xxvii
Preface xxviii Robert Morstein-Marx and Nathan Rosenstein
Part I Introductory 1
1 Methods, Models, and Historiography 3 Martin Jehne Translated by Robert Morstein-Marx and Benjamin Wolkow
2 Literary Sources 29 Edward Bispham
3 Epigraphy and Numismatics 51 Mark Pobjoy
4 The Topography and Archaeology of Republican Rome 81 Mario Torelli Translated by Helena Fracchia
5 The Physical Geography and Environment of Republican Italy 102 Simon Stoddart
Part II Narrative 123
6 Between Myth and History: Rome’s Rise from Village to Empire (the Eighth Century to 264) 125 Kurt A. Raaflaub
7 Mediterranean Empire (264–134) 147 Daniel J. Gargola
8 From the Gracchi to the First Civil War (133–70) 167 C. F. Konrad
9 The Final Crisis (69–44) 190 W. Jeffrey Tatum
Part III Civic Structures 213
10 Communicating with the Gods 215 Jörg Rüpke
11 Law in the Roman Republic 236 Michael C. Alexander
12 The Constitution of the Roman Republic 256 John A. North
13 Army and Society 278 Paul Erdkamp
Part IV Society 297
14 Social Structure and Demography 299 Neville Morley
15 Finding Roman Women 324 Beryl Rawson
Part V Political Culture 343
16 The City of Rome 345 John R. Patterson
17 Aristocratic Values 365 Nathan Rosenstein
18 Popular Power in the Roman Republic 383 Alexander Yakobson
19 Patronage 401 Elizabeth Deniaux Translated by Robert Morstein-Marx and Robert Martz
20 Rhetoric and Public Life 421 Jean-Michel David Translated by Robert Morstein-Marx and Robert Martz
21 The Republican Body 439 Anthony Corbeill
Part VI The Creation of a Roman Identity 457
22 Romans and Others 459 Erich S. Gruen
23 History and Collective Memory in the Middle Republic 478 Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
24 Art and Architecture in the Roman Republic 496 Katherine E. Welch
25 Literature 543 William W. Batstone
Part VII Controversies 565
26 Conceptualizing Roman Imperial Expansion under the Republic: An Introduction 567 Arthur M. Eckstein
27 The Economy: Agrarian Change During the Second Century 590 Luuk de Ligt
28 Rome and Italy 606 John R. Patterson
29 The Transformation of the Republic 625 Robert Morstein-Marx and Nathan Rosenstein
Bibliography 638
Index 695