In Rome's Long Shadow

Jamie A. Gianoutsos

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A fascinating history of the republican tradition that modern states inherited from ancient Rome. Julius Caesar, Lucretia, Cincinnatus, Augustus, the Gracchi brothers: Roman figures have had an extraordinary influence on modern republics from America to France. Here historian Jamie Gianoutsos traces the Roman republic and its afterlives through the revolutionary birth of modern republics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to reveal how ancient ideas of liberty, virtue, and corruption shaped the political imagination of a new age. Moving from stories of tyranny and collapse in ancient Rome to moments of crisis in early modern Europe and the Atlantic world, Gianoutsos uncovers recurring patterns in the rise - and fall - of republics.

Author(s): Gianoutsos, Jamie A.
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 05/11/2026
Pagination: 384 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Allen Lane
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Classification: General & world history|History of ideas|Political science & theory|Political ideologies
Dimensions: 243 x 165 x 35
Weight: 615
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241608333

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