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Chapter 3 - Perspectives from Germany

from Part I - Original Essays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2025

By
Harriet I. Flower
Edited by
Amy Russell  and
Hans Beck
Translated by
Kathrin Lüddecke
Amy Russell
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
Hans Beck
Affiliation:
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
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Summary

In a new essay, Harriet I. Flower gives her personal overview of key themes in the German scholarship translated in this volume. German and anglophone scholarship have pursued different paths for reasons including differences in how the boundaries of disciplines are constituted, but also because of the strong influence in Germany of work by Christian Meier which remains untranslated. Three lenses are suggested which can help us categorize this volume’s contributions to the study of Roman political culture: procedures and rules, ritual and spectacle, and the context in the city of Rome.

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Roman RepublicRoman historyGerman scholarshiphistory of scholarshipRoman politics
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The Roman Republic and Political Culture
German Scholarship in Translation
 , pp. 71 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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