The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic's highest office - to be s

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, Durham University, 2013.

Libertas and Res Publica examines two key concepts of Western political thinking: freedom and republic. Contributors address important new questions on the prin

Gathers together extracts from Cicero's works in which he discusses the Roman state (res publica). Grouped into eight thematic chapters, this title enables the

This book explores how public space in Republican Rome was an unstable category marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.