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Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-Marx is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on painstaking re-analysis of the ancient sources in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the participatory role of the People in the republican political system, a strong emphasis on agents' choices rather than structural causation, and profound scepticism toward the facile determinism that often substitutes for historical explanation, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound historical importance who stands at the turning point of Roman history from Republic to Empire.Review‘Highly recommended.’ R. T. Ingoglia, Choice Magazine ‘What Morstein-Marx attempts here is nothing less than a reset of earlier thinking about the end of the Republic and

Who reads Julius Caesar and the Roman People?

Author

Robert Morstein-Marx

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108943260

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Humanities