Blits, Jan H.

Telling, turning moments in the classical political world [electronic resource] / Jan H. Blits. - Lanham : Lexington Books, 2011. - vii, 177 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Athens and Rome : Plutarch's Theseus and Romulus -- Redeeming lost honor : Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece -- The end of the noble -- No middle way, no second way : Rome and the Caudine Forks -- The politics of authority and rhetoric in republican Rome -- Political murder in Rome -- Power without office, office without power : Augustus's Principate -- Afterword: Greece versus Rome -- Appendix: Greece and Rome timeline.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Political culture--History--Greece--To 1500.
Political culture--History.--Rome
Social change--History--Greece--To 1500.
Social change--History.--Rome


Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
Rome--Politics and government.
Greece--Politics and government--Historiography.--To 146 B.C.
Rome--Politics and government--Historiography.
Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.--Sources.
Rome--Politics and government--Sources.


Electronic books.

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