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23990 results in Ancient history

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  • 4 - The Struggle for Reform (150–104 BCE)

  • Josiah Osgood, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE
    Published online:
    11 April 2018
    Print publication:
    12 April 2018, pp 48-67

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the outbreak and repercussions of Tiberius Gracchus' challenge to the Senate. Tiberius set the precedent of bypassing the Senate and tried to expand the power of the plebeian assembly, to the dismay of the senatorial elites. The clashes between tribunes and the plebeian assembly, on the one hand, and their Seantorial opponents, on the other, over such issues as public land distribution, colonization, and foreign policy continued after Tiberius' murder. Tiberius' younger brother Gaius went further than Tiberius in trying to use the plebeian assembly to enact comprehensive reform of Roman government and he and his supporters were suppressed with force.

  • 9 - The Course of Empire: Provincial Government and Society (90–50 BCE)

  • Josiah Osgood, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE
    Published online:
    11 April 2018
    Print publication:
    12 April 2018, pp 144-159

  • Summary

    Using especially letters written by and to Cicero during his governorship of Cilicia (51-50 BCE), this chapter explores how provinces of the Roman empire were administered in the late Republican period. The figure of the governor and his staff are described. Methods for collecting regular taxes and illegal extortions are analyzed. Developments in provincial societies are traced, including burgeoning communities of Roman citizens as well as the rise of elites willing to cooperate with Romans. There was resistance to Roman rule, but overall Romans and non-Romans together developed a more coherent and mutually satsifactory idea of empire.

Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE
  • Josiah Osgood
  • Published online:
    11 April 2018
    Print publication:
    12 April 2018
  • In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and intellectual center that eclipsed other Mediterranean cities, while ideas and practices of citizenship underwent radical change. In this book, Josiah Osgood offers a new survey of this most vivid period of Roman history, the Late Republic. While many discussions focus on politics in the city of Rome itself, his account examines developments throughout the Mediterranean and ties political events more firmly to the growth of overseas empire. The volume includes a broad overview of economic and cultural developments. By extending the story well beyond the conventional stopping date of Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE, Osgood ultimately moves away from the old paradigm of the fall of the Republic. The Romans of the Late Republic emerge less as the disreputable gangsters of popular imagination and more as inspired innovators.

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