It is largely thanks to Zvi Yavetz that the Roman plebs has become "Salonfähig". In numerous important studies Yavetz has focused his - and our - attention on the problem of the relationship between the ruler and the masses of the ruled. Thus, it seemed natural to choose various aspects of this relationship as the topic of a volume in his honour. The articles here contributed by thirteen eminent friends and colleagues deal with historical and theoretical questions of the relationship between "the one" and "the many", covering a period from the second century B.C., through the times of the Late Republic and the Principate, to Late Antiquity and, finally, to an intriguing view at modern totalitarianism as perceived from an Enlightenment perspective.
Author(s): Irad Malkin, Wolfgang Zeev Rubinsohn (eds.)
Series: Mnemosyne Supplements 139
Publisher: E. J. Brill
Year: 1995
Language: English, French, German, Italian
Pages: XVIII+248
City: Leiden
Preface vii
BENJAMIN ISAAC / Zvi Yavetz: A biographical outline ix
IRAD MALKIN / Zvi Yavetz: Bibliography xiv
Plebs und Princeps nach dem Tod des Germanicus / WERNER ECK 1
Riflessione sul cap. 13 delle "Res gestae divi Augusti" / EMILIO GABBA 11
Catilina et le probleme des dettes / A. GIOVANNINI 15
Tacitus, Tiberius and the Principate / MIRIAM GRIFFIN 33
The "Fall" of the Scipios / ERICH S. GRUEN 59
Popular politics at Rome in the Late Republic / FERGUS MILLAR 91
La tabula Siarensis, la plebe et les statues de Germanicus / C. NICOLET 115
Mass movements in Late Antiquity: appearances and realities / ZEEV RUBIN 129
Soldaten und Befehlshaber in Caesars "Bellum civile" / WOLFGANG SCHULLER 189
Polybius' perception of the One and the Many / F. W. WALBANK 201
Enlightenment on the Greek city-state / P. VIDAL-NAQUET 223
General Index 237
Index of Modern Authors Cited 241
