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- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- From Republic to Empire
- Making Romans in the Family
- Primary Education
- Rhetorical Education
- Philosophy as Socio-political Upbringing
- Law and Social Formation in the Roman Empire
- Literature and Communication
- Epigraphy and Communication
- Communicating with Tablets and Papyri
- Coins and Communication
- Elite Self-Representation in Rome
- Public Speaking in Rome: A Question of <i>Auctoritas</i>
- The Second Sophistic
- Roman Society in the Courtroom
- Public Entertainments
- Socializing at the Baths
- Roman Honor
- Friendship among the Romans
- Hospitality among the Romans
- Roman Dining
- Violence in Roman Social Relations
- Organized Societies: <i>Collegia</i>
- The Roman Army
- Graeco-Roman Cultic Societies
- Ancient Jewish Social Relations
- Christian Society
- Slaves in Roman Society
- Women in Roman Society
- Children in the Roman Family and Beyond
- Roman Prostitutes and Marginalization
- Between Marginality and Celebrity: Entertainers and Entertainments in Roman Society
- Magicians and Astrologers
- The Roman Bandit (<i>Latro</i>) as Criminal and Outsider
- Physically Deformed and Disabled People
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article outlines the transformation of Rome from a republic to an empire. It looks at the attempts to diagnose the problems of the Roman Republic and examines the understandings of the crisis of the late republic that were developed under the principate. Finally, it studies the early principate and argues that the histories of power and politics joined to create new forms of subjectivity and new expressions of political engagement.
Keywords: republic, empire, problems, principate, power and politics, political engagement
Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He is an historian of religion, law, and government in the Roman Empire.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- From Republic to Empire
- Making Romans in the Family
- Primary Education
- Rhetorical Education
- Philosophy as Socio-political Upbringing
- Law and Social Formation in the Roman Empire
- Literature and Communication
- Epigraphy and Communication
- Communicating with Tablets and Papyri
- Coins and Communication
- Elite Self-Representation in Rome
- Public Speaking in Rome: A Question of <i>Auctoritas</i>
- The Second Sophistic
- Roman Society in the Courtroom
- Public Entertainments
- Socializing at the Baths
- Roman Honor
- Friendship among the Romans
- Hospitality among the Romans
- Roman Dining
- Violence in Roman Social Relations
- Organized Societies: <i>Collegia</i>
- The Roman Army
- Graeco-Roman Cultic Societies
- Ancient Jewish Social Relations
- Christian Society
- Slaves in Roman Society
- Women in Roman Society
- Children in the Roman Family and Beyond
- Roman Prostitutes and Marginalization
- Between Marginality and Celebrity: Entertainers and Entertainments in Roman Society
- Magicians and Astrologers
- The Roman Bandit (<i>Latro</i>) as Criminal and Outsider
- Physically Deformed and Disabled People
- Index
