Social Struggles in Archaic Rome
Subtitle: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders
Contributors: Tim Cornell (Contributor); Jerzy Linderski (Contributor); Richard E. Mitchell (Contributor); Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781405100618
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Plebs (Rome); History; History - General History; Social life and customs; History: World; Ancient Rome; Rome; Ancient - Rome; Social History; ESTATES (SOCIAL ORDERS)_ROME; History / Ancient / Rome; ROME_HISTORY_REPUBLIC, 510-30 B.C.; ROME_SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS; SOCIAL CLASSES_ROME; Estates (Social orders); Ancient - General; Social classes
First sentence: In the introduction to his Roman Antiquities, Dionysius of Halicarnassus criticizes the works of the earliest Roman historians, Q. Fabius Pictor and L. Cincius Alimentus, both contemporary with the second Punic War.