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Könyv Senators Debated While Republic Authority Quietly Eroded Thalia Brookstone

Senators Debated While Republic Authority Quietly Eroded

Political corruption and constitutional breakdown during the final decades of republican Rome.DE

Szerző: Thalia Brookstone
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: epubli
Elérhetőség: Kiadói készleten rendelésre
Küldés 17-27 napon belül
13 418 Ft
The Roman Republic collapsed long before emperors openly ruled it. Behind public speeches and legal...

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Szerző
Thalia Brookstone
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
280
EAN
9783565477937
Enbook ID
52824565
Kiadó
epubli
Súly
853
Méretek
210 x 297 x 16

Teljes leírás

The Roman Republic collapsed long before emperors openly ruled it. Behind public speeches and legal tradition, wealth, military influence, and personal ambition steadily weakened institutions once designed to prevent concentrated power. Constitutional balance survived increasingly as ceremony rather than reality.This book examines the institutional crisis that consumed the late Roman Republic. Senators defended republican legality while powerful generals accumulated private armies, economic patronage, and influence over popular assemblies. Corruption spread through elections, provincial administration, and judicial systems unable to restrain elite competition.The narrative also explores the political conflict between the conservative Optimates and the reformist Populares. Agrarian reform, citizenship expansion, and economic inequality intensified struggles over who controlled the republic's future. Public support became a weapon as politicians appealed directly to urban crowds and military loyalty instead of senatorial consensus.Rome emerges here as a state whose legal structures failed gradually under pressures generated by imperial expansion itself. The republic did not fall from external invasion, but from the inability of its institutions to contain the ambitions they had helped create.