Table of Contents

1. Senatus Populusque Romanus: institutions and practices; 2. Leaders and masses in the Roman Republic; 3. Consensus and competition; Bibliographic essay.

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

About the Author

Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Roman History at King's College London. He has published widely on aspects of Roman history from local and republican politics to slavery, manumission, and epigraphy. His books include Elections, Magistrates and Municipal Elite (1988), Italian Unification (1998), Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2001), and The Freedman in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2011).