The Last Generation of the Roman Republic

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University of California Press, 1995 M02 28 - 596 pages
Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the aristocracy.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Political Alliances and Alignments
47
The First Triumvirate and the Reaction
83
The Consuls and Consular Elections
121
The Senate
162
Criminal and Administrative Law
211
The Implications
260
The Continuities
311
The Plebs and the Army
358
The Coming of Civil War
449
Index Rerum
587
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Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (California, 1984).

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