The Governance of ROME

Next to the Bible, Shakespeare, the French revolution and Napoleon, ancient Rome is one of the most plowed-through fields of historical experience. One of the truly great periods of history, Rome, over the centuries, deservedly has attracted the passionate attention of historians, philologists and,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loewenstein, K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1973, 1973
Edition:1st ed. 1973
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Abridged Table of Contents
  • One: The Republic
  • I: The Origins: The Period of the Mythological Kings
  • II: The Class Struggle and the Merger between the Patricians and the Plebeians
  • III: The Political Institutions of the Republic I: The Magistrates
  • IV The Political Institutions of the Republic II: The Popular Assemblies
  • V: The Political Institutions of the Republic III: The Senate
  • VI. The Administration of Justice
  • VII: The Collapse of the Republican Order
  • A Postscript: Why the Roman Republic Never Became a Democracy
  • Two: The Empire
  • Introduction: Principate and Dominate
  • I The Establishment of the Principate
  • II The Institutions of the Augustan Principate I
  • III: The Institutions of the Augustan Principate II
  • IV: The Administration of justice
  • V: The Augustan Reform Legislation
  • VI: The Creator and His Work
  • Section Two: The Principate in Operation
  • VII: The Period in Retrospect
  • VIII: The Emperor
  • IX: the face of the republican institutions
  • X: The Social Classes
  • XI: The Administration of the Empire
  • XII: Decline and Fall of the Principate
  • Section Three: The Dominate
  • XIII The Period in Retrospect
  • XIV: The Rise of Christianity as the State Religion
  • XV: The Emperor
  • XVI: The Organization of the Imperial Government
  • XVII: The Administration of Justice and the Law
  • XVIII: The Coercive State
  • Epilogue: Rome’s Impact on the Civilization of the Western World