Full Description
This book explores the apex of the Roman Republic, positing that the Republic has been one of mixed characteristics combining monarchic, oligarchic, aristocratic and democratic elements in its constitution. It offers unique analytical insights into the golden constitutional era of the Roman Republic by exploring the essence, the fundamentals, the historical roots and the structures of its institutions.
In addition to exploring the apex of the Republic and the reasons behind it, the monograph taxonomises and explores the constituent elements of the Republic. It does so by offering a detailed analysis of the precise constitutional nature of the Roman Republic and its institutions in the same period of time. Moreover, the book radically challenges the traditional picture of the Roman republic as a three-dimensional constitutional reality (monarchy - aristocracy - democracy), proposing that the Republic was more complex than that, as in it being a four-dimensional constitutional reality (monarchy - aristocracy - oligarchy - democracy).
Contents
Part I: The Republic's Rise
1. An Introduction to Rome in the Years of the Republic & Analytical Parameters
2. From the Monarchy to the Republic: From Legend to History
3. Periodisation of the Republic: between Classic Periodisation and Flower's Periodisation
Part II: The Republic's Apogee
4. The Roman Character and the Republic's Character at its Best (287-133 BC)
5. Lex Hortensia or How the Roman Republic's Constitution Became More Democratic
6. A Constitution in Overdrive Responsible for Building an Empire
Part III: A Mixed Polity of Monarchic, Oligarchic, Aristocratic and Democratic Elements
7. The Roman Republic as a Mixed Polity
8. The Social and Economic Forces behind the Republic's Constitution
9. The Roman Constitution per se & Methodological Considerations
10. Monarchic Elements
11. Oligarchic Elements
12. Aristocratic Elements
13. Democratic Elements
14. A Unique Constitutional Blend
Part IV: Concluding Thoughts
15. A Constitution That Could Not Support Anymore the Empire It Generated
16. The Fall of the Republic (133-27 BC)
17. Implications for the Future
