Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-53000-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History

B. G. Niebuhr, the founder of ‘modern history’, exerts an enduring influence; even in death, Goethe once claimed, ‘[Niebuhr] still walks around and works’. Today, Niebuhr is a humbler phantom, rarely invoked and largely forgotten. Similar fates await the shades of Theodor Mommsen, Friedrich Münzer, and Matthias Gelzer. Yet, each demands reconsideration and revitalization. Their texts remain foundational, constituting the conceptual and methodological core of Republican political studies.
Politics in the Roman Republic (re)presents the first critical, comprehensive, Anglophone survey of these scholars’ influence. Its innovative reassessments dispel deep-seated misconceptions and emphasize relevance. The work’s unique (re)interpretations render it essential reading for any student of Rome: specialist and non-specialist alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barber, Cary Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Note

Acknowledgments

Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer

Cary M. Barber

Abstract

Keywords

1 The ‘Long Nineteenth Century’ of Historiography

2 Prelude to Niebuhr’s ‘Historiography of the Future’

3 Barthold Georg Niebuhr’s ‘Revolution’

4 In the Shadow of Mommsen

5 Münzer, Gelzer, and the ‘Social Scientific’ Tradition

6 Perspectives on Roman Politics, Past and Present

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cary M. Barber, Ph.D. (2016), The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of History at California State University San Bernardino. He has written on political culture in the Roman Middle Republic, ancient demography, and Late Antique administration and culture.