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The Last Generation of the Roman Republic » (Reprint)

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Authors: Erich S. Gruen
ISBN-13: 9780520201538, ISBN-10: 0520201531
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: February 1995
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Erich S. Gruen

Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (California, 1984).

Book Synopsis

Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the aristocracy.

	Introduction to the Paperback Edition
	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
I	The Aftermath of Sulla	6
II	Political Alliances and Alignments	47
III	The "First Triumvirate" and the Reaction	83
IV	The Consuls and Consular Elections	121
V	The Senate	162
VI	Legislative Activity: Criminal and Administrative Law	211
VII	Criminal Trials (I): The Implications	260
VIII	Criminal Trials (II): The Continuities	311
IX	The Plebs and the Army	358
X	Discontents and Violence	405
XI	The Coming of Civil War	449
	Conclusion	498
	Appendix I: Composition of the Senate	508
	Appendix II: Additional Criminal Trials	524
	Appendix III: Imperia Extra Ordinem	534
	Bibliography	544
	Index Nominum	561
	Index Rerum	587