The Roman RevolutionThe Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling. |
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Page 155
... Libertas is a vague and negative notion - freedom from the rule of a tyrant or a faction . It follows that libertas , like regnum or dominatio , is a convenient term of political fraud . Libertas was most commonly invoked in defence of ...
... Libertas is a vague and negative notion - freedom from the rule of a tyrant or a faction . It follows that libertas , like regnum or dominatio , is a convenient term of political fraud . Libertas was most commonly invoked in defence of ...
Page 506
... Libertas , as has been sufficiently shown , may be appropriated by any faction and any government : it soon went the way of Pax and became Libertas Augusta . Pompeius Magnus was hardly worth resuscitating ; and the Republicans never ...
... Libertas , as has been sufficiently shown , may be appropriated by any faction and any government : it soon went the way of Pax and became Libertas Augusta . Pompeius Magnus was hardly worth resuscitating ; and the Republicans never ...
Page 516
... Libertas and the Republic , a necessary and salutary fraud : his successors paid for it . Libertas in Roman thought and usage had never quite meant unrestricted liberty ; and the ideal which the word now embodied was the respect for ...
... Libertas and the Republic , a necessary and salutary fraud : his successors paid for it . Libertas in Roman thought and usage had never quite meant unrestricted liberty ; and the ideal which the word now embodied was the respect for ...
Contents
THE DOMINATION OF POMPEIUS | 28 |
CAESAR THE DICTATOR | 47 |
THE CAESARIAN PARTY | 59 |
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