Draws on archaeological evidence to reconstruct voting procedures in the assemblies

A very readable introduction exploring much-contested issues and debates, and providing an original synthesis of this important topic.

For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to forge resolutions publicly to issues that

There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the const

Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic analyses the political role of the masses in a profoundly aristocratic society. Constitutionally the populus Roman