An analysis of the Roman oligarchy. It describes the methods by which the few most politically important clans in Rome, originally patrician, had expanded to take in so many promising plebeians - not only from Rome but from all over Italy - and make them part of the governing class. Drawing on documentary evidence, Friedrich Munzer offers a survey of the Roman aristocracy over the course of four centuries, including detailed information on virtually every Roman aristocratic family, from the beginning of the genuine historical tradition in Rome to the middle of the first century BC.
- ISBN10 0801859905
- ISBN13 9780801859908
- Publish Date 24 May 1999
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English