Politics and Society in Imperial RomeISBN: 978-1-4051-7969-0
Hardcover
176 pages
July 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Offers a fresh interpretation of the politics, society, and culture of imperial Rome
- Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic
- Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society
- Includes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier