Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic

Catalina Balmaceda (D.Phil. Oxford, 2005) is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has published many articles on Roman historiography, and more recently Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).Contributors are: Carlos Amunátegui, Clifford Ando, Valentina Arena, Catalina Balmaceda, Henriette van der Blom, Harriet Flower, Frédéric Hurlet, Claudia Moatti, Francisco Pina Polo, Cristina Rosillo-López, Jeff Tatum

• AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCatalina Balmaceda1 Archaic Ideas on the Concept of LibertasCarlos Amunátegui2 Libertas in Early Latin AuthorsCatalina Balmaceda3 The God Liber and Republican Notions of Libertas in the Late Roman RepublicValentina Arena4 The Freedom of the Rhodians: Cato the Elder and DemosthenesHarriet Flower5 Ex Imperio Libertas: Freedom and Republican EmpireClifford Ando6 The Notion of Res Publica and Its Conflicting Meanings at the End of the Roman RepublicClaudia Moatti7 The Consulship under the Triumvirs: a Phantom Office?Francisco Pina Polo8 Arbitration in the Res Publica: a Novel Way of Solving Internal Political Conflicts in the 40s and 30s BCCristina Rosillo-López9 The Auctoritas and Libertas of Augustus: Metamorphosis of the Roman res publicaFrédéric Hurlet10 A Great and Arduous Struggle: Marcus Antonius and the Rhetoric of Libertas in 44–43 BCJeff Tatum11 Res Publica, Libertas and Free Speech in Retrosp

"This volume succeeds in prompting a desire for further study of what the relevant terms mean politically, which must involve Roman citizens of different statuses, as well as women, foreigners and the enslaved." Panayiotis Christoforou, BMCR 2022.07.07