Party Politics in the Age of Caesar

Name: Party Politics in the Age of Caesar
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ISBN: 9780520012578

ISBN-10: 0520012577

ISBN-13: 9780520012578

Edition: 1961

Authors: Lily Ross Taylor

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The advice given to Cicero by his astute, campaign-conscious brother to prepare him for the consular elections of 64 B.C., has a curiously modern ring: "Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key-men in all classes of voters." Party Politics in the Age of Caesaris a shrewd commentary on this text, designed to clarify the true meaning in Roman political life of such terms as "party" and "faction." Taylor brilliantly explains the mechanics of Roman politics as she discusses the relations of nobles and their clients, the manipulation of the state religion for political expedience, and the…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1961
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/1/1961
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




Personalities and Programs



Nobles, Clients, and Personal Armies



Delivering the Vote


The Role of the City Plebs and the Italians in the Voting


The Campaign for Election and Legislation



Manipulating the State Religion


Religion and Divination in Politics


Politics and the Public Priesthoods



The Criminal Courts and the Rise of a New Man



Cato and the Populares


Optimates and Populares before Catiline's Conspiracy


Cato's Leadership of the Optimates


The Union of Cato's Enemies


The Removal of Cato



Optimates and Dynasts


Propaganda and Public Opinion from 58 to 53 B.C.


Pompey's Sole Consulship


Cicero and Sallust on the Reform of the State


Caesar's Propaganda and the Gallic Succession



Catonism and Caesarism


Notes


Index