Roman Culture and Society

`Rawson's writing is dense, provocative, and highly interpretive, with all the rewards and risks such an enterprise entails. But enterprising she was, and the success of that enterprise is fully revealed in this fine collection, valuable indeed for all those interested in the development and characterization of the "Roman" mentality.'History

• Prodigy lists and the use of the "Annales Maximi"; L.Crassus and Cicero - the formation of a statesman; the literary sources for the pre-Marian army; Cicero the historian and Cicero the antiquarian; Scipio, Laelius, Furius and the ancestral religion; the eastern "Clientelae" of Clodius and the Claudii; the interpretation of Cicero's "De Legibus"; religion and politics in the late second century BC at Rome; Caesar's heritage - Hellenistic kings and their Roman equals; architecture and sculpture - the activities of the Cossutii; the Ciceronian aristocracy and its properties; "Homo Novus Arpinas ex M.Crassi familia"; more on the "Clientelae" of the patrician Claudii; the first Latin annalists; the identity problems of Q.Cornificius; Caesar, Etruria, and the "Disciplina Etrusca"; the introduction of logical organization in Roman prose literature; M.Aeficius Calvinus and his "grammaticus"; Caerellii, Juno Populona, and Aquinum; L.Cornelius Sisenna and the early first century BC; chariot-racing in the Roman Republic; history, historiography, and Cicero's "exposito consiliorum"; "Crassorum Funera"; the life and death of Asclepiades of Bithynia; Cicero and the Areopagus; theatrical life in Republican Rome and Italy; Cassius and Brutus - the memory of the Liberators; "Discrimina Ordinum" - the "Lex Julia Theatralis"; Sallust on the '80s; "Speciosa locis morataque recte"; the antiquarian tradition - spoils and representations of foreign armour.