Ex Imperio Libertas: Freedom and Republican Empire

Author: Ando, Clifford
Title: Ex Imperio Libertas: Freedom and Republican Empire
Review/Collection: In : Catalina Balmaceda (ed.), « Libertas » and « res publica » in the Roman Republic: ideas of freedom and Roman politics, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020. XII-269 p.
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 104-118
Keywords: Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: This paper considers two interrelated problems in the analysis of Roman understandings of libertas, or freedom. The first is whether Romans understood freedom to be constituted through domination. The second is whether Romans understood the structures of freedom and domination that obtained in the international arena to have any necessary relation to the structures of freedom and domination that obtained within the Roman political community [Author] Quotes Cic. Balb. 21–22 and 35 ; Att. 115.15
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Author initials: Ando 2020