This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like mili

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The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Ti

This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and m

Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.