Volume 31, Number 10 · June 14, 1984
Junius Q. Publicus
By G.W. Bowersock
The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome
by Claude Nicolet, translated by P.S. Falla
University of California Press, 435 pp., $50.00
The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus and His Reputation
by M.L. Clarke
Cornell University Press, 158 pp., $24.50
From its beginnings in a small, hilly enclave near the west coast of central Italy, Rome became, over some five centuries, the ruling power of the entire Mediterranean world. By the end of the sixth century BC, the Romans had already expelled their kings—about whom we know very little—in favor of a republic. Despite the turbulence of repeated challenges to the authority of its aristocrats, the Roman Republic proved strong and cohesive enough to defeat Hannibal, destroy Carthage, and supplant the Hellenistic kingdoms of the Greek East.
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