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This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea.
Synopsis
This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan, a period in which the Republican constitution gradually gave way and was finally superceded by the Principate which, in its own turn, considerably changed during the first century AD.
Table of Contents
1. General characteristics of libertas; 2. Civil discord: optimates and populares; 3. The decline of the traditional form of government; 4. The augustan principate in relation to libertas; 5. Principatus et libertas res olim dissociabiles; Bibliography; Index.