A History and Description of Roman Political Institutions

by Frank Frost Abbott

Excerpt from A History and Description Scription of Roman Political Institutions

The brevity at which I have aimed has made it necessary at times in discussing controverted questions to content myself with stating what seemed to me the most probable theory. It has possibly at other points led to the omission of certain details whose presentation might modify the reader's conception of the institution in question. If this has given a dogmatic tone to any part of the work, I hope that the defect has been corrected by the fact that refer ence has been made to the sources for almost every impor tant statement, and that modern literature has been freely cited, so that the reader may form an independent judg ment or may acquaint himself with the views held by others on the matter in question.

Genres: History

Paperback

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

1860-1924

Reviews

[Boris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a useful guide to Roman politics. Actually, you can use it as a reference book when you want to study Rome's political institutions of a certain period. Profound analysis. Perfect organization. It provides the reader ideas of Rome's constitutional arrangement of each epoch, emphasizing the dynamic relations between various institutions (each of them had a fancy name that is later integrated into the English language, for example, senate, tribune, consul, etc.) that changed as the power of the competing classes waxed and waned. You do not need to read through the book if you only want to get yourself familiarize with a certain period, you can just read a specific section. If you need to learn a certain institution or an event, you can use the index:)