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The heroic rulers of archaic and classical Greece
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ISBN: 9781472505965 9781472510679 1472505964 1472510674 1472511387 9781472511386 1472513460 9781472513465 1472555805 Year: 2013 Publisher: London [etc.] Bloomsbury Publishing

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Livy's political philosophy
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ISBN: 9781107065673 9781107588547 9781107667945 1107065674 1107588545 9781316249987 1316249980 9781316248089 1316248089 9781316234853 1316234851 1316255662 1316253767 131625187X 1107667941 1316236749 1316246191 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This volume explores the political implications of the first five books of Livy's celebrated history of Rome, challenging the common perception of the author as an apolitical moralist. Ann Vasaly argues that Livy intended to convey through the narration of particular events crucial lessons about the interaction of power and personality, including the personality of the Roman people as a whole. These lessons demonstrate the means by which the Roman republic flourished in the distant past and by which it might be revived in Livy's own corrupt time. Written at the precise moment when Augustus' imperial autocracy was replacing the republican system that had existed in Rome for almost 500 years, the stories of the first pentad offer invaluable insight into how republics and monarchies work. Vasaly's innovative study furthers the integration in recent scholarship of the literary brilliance of Livy's text and the seriousness of its purpose.


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Die griechische Polis : Verfassung und Gesellschaft in archaischer und klassischer Zeit
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ISBN: 9783515115612 3515115617 9783515115629 Year: 2017 Publisher: Stuttgart Franz Steiner

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