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It has often been thought that Roman politics was dominated by a governing class, or even aristocracy, and it has sometimes been presumed that the Senate was a legislative body. <i>The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic</i> takes a dramatically new tack, and explores the consequences of a democracy in which public office could be gained only by direct election by the people. And while the Senate could indeed debate public matters, advise other office-holders, and make some administrative decisions, it could not legislate. An office-holder who wanted to pass a law had to step out of the Senate-house and propose it to the people in the Forum--where there were few guarantees.<br> In this important study, Fergus Millar explores the development of the Roman Republic, which, as it drew to a close in the middle decades of the first century B.C.E., had come to cover most of Italy. There were nearly a million adult male voters in the time of Cicero, but there were no constituencies, and no absentee ballots. To exercise their rights, voters had to come in person to Rome and to meet in the Forum. Millar takes the period from the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and sh

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Author

Fergus Millar

Publisher

University of Michigan Press ; [University Presses Marketing] (distributor)

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472108923

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Ancient History

Rating

3.85 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14