Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139625746
1139625748
9781139235754
1139235753
1139616447
9781139616447
9781139612722
1139612727
9781107028173
1107028175
9781283870597
1283870592
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on the means allowing for the preservation and the loss of libertas. Considering the interplay of these traditions in the political debates of the first century BC, Dr Arena offers a significant reinterpretation of the political struggles of the time as well as a radical reappraisal of the role played by the idea of liberty in the practice of politics. She argues that, as a result of its uses in rhetorical debates, libertas underwent a form of conceptual change at the end of the Republic and came to legitimize a new course of politics, which led progressively to the transformation of the whole political system"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Arena, Valentina, 1972- Libertas and the practice of politics in the late Roman Republic. Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107028173
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| Standard no.: | 40022060052
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