The Social History of Rome

By: Geza Alfoeldy, David Braund (Translator), Frank Polluck (Translator)

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Paperback | 14 January 1989

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Geza Alfoldy provides a succinct chronological introduction to Roman social history from the time of Romulus and Remus to the "last Emperor," Romulus Augustulus. Expanding the focus of some approaches to this subject, Alfoldy examines Rome's social structure against the broader and more familiar background of its political history.

This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire.

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""Excellent discussions of the plebians and their struggle for political recoginiton, the nature of the aristrocracy, the nobles, the economy, the senatorial and equestrian orders with their ladders of promotion, the municipal aristocracy... [An] excellent introduction to the subject by a historian of international reputation.""

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Preface to the English Edition	p. vii
Preface to the First German Edition (1975)	p. ix
Early Roman Society
Foundations and Beginnings of the Early Roman Social System	p. 1
The Structure of Archaic Roman Society	p. 5
The Struggle of the Orders in Early Rome	p. 13
Roman Society from the Beginning of Expansion to the Second Punic War
The Dissolution of the Archaic Social System: Equilibrium of the Orders and Expansion	p. 20
The Roman Social System of the Third Century BC	p. 29
The Structural Change of the Second Century BC
Conditions and General Characteristics	p. 42
Upper Strata	p. 44
Lower Strata, Italians, Provincials	p. 51
The Road to the Crisis	p. 59
The Crisis of the Republic and Roman Society
Conflicts in Roman Society during the Late Republic	p. 65
Uprisings of Slaves, Provincials and Italians	p. 67
The Principal Conflicts of the Late Republic and Their Social Context	p. 73
The Consequences of the Crisis for Roman Society	p. 85
The Social System of the Early Empire
Conditions Old and New	p. 94
The Social Stratification	p. 106
The Senatorial Order	p. 115
Other Elevated Orders and Strata	p. 122
Lower Strata in the Cities	p. 133
Lower Strata in the Countryside	p. 142
The Orders-Strata Structure and Its Effects	p. 146
The Crisis of the Roman Empire and Structural Change in Society
The Crisis of the Roman Empire and Roman Society	p. 157
Changes in the Upper Strata	p. 162
Changes in the Lower Strata	p. 173
Structural Change	p. 176
Late Roman Society
Conditions and General Characteristics	p. 186
Upper Strata	p. 193
Lower Strata	p. 202
Late Roman Society and the Fall of the Roman Empire	p. 210
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 248
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