Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republics
Author | : Edward Wortley Montagu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1793 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Wortley Montagu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1793 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Wortley Montagu |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1806 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Plutarch takes notice of a very remarkable law of Solon's,1 "which declared every man infamous, who, in any sedition or civil dissension in the state, should continue neuter, and refuse to side with either party." Aulus Gellius,2 who gives a more circumstantial detail of this uncommon law, affirms the penalty to be "no less than confiscation of all the effects, and banishment of the delinquent." Cicero mentions the same law to his friend Atticus,3 and even makes the punishment capital, though he resolves at the same time not to conform to it under his present circumstances, unless his friend should advise him to the contrary. Which of these relators has given us the real penalty annexed to this law by Solon, is scarce worth our inquiry. But I cannot help observing, that strange as this law may appear at first sight, yet if we reflect upon the reasons of it, as they are assigned by Plutarch and A. Gellius, it will not appear unworthy of that great legislator.
Author | : Baron Charles De Secondat Montesquieu, Bar |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498156387 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1825 Edition.
Author | : Edward Andrew |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442643315 |
Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France. Many scholars have noted the influence of the Roman state on the ideology of republican revolutionaries, especially in the model it provided for transforming subordinate subjects into autonomous citizens. Andrew finds an equally important parallel between Rome's expansionary dynamic in contrast to that of Athens, Sparta, or Carthage and the imperial rivalries that emerged between the United States, France, and England in the age of revolutions. Imperial Republics is a sophisticated, wide-ranging examination of the intellectual origins of republican movements, and explains why revolutionaries felt the need to 'don the toga' in laying the foundation for their own uprisings.
Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253037794 |
Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this "present-centered" historical writing to be so valued and influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period. In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world.