Nathan Rosenstein is Professor of History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Imperatores Victi (1990) and Rome at War (2004), and coeditor of War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (2001).

Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East (1995) and Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic (2004).

List of Maps x List of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xiv Maps xix Abbreviations xxvii Preface xxviii
Robert Morstein-Marx and Nathan Rosenstein Part I Introductory 1 1 Methods, Models, and Historiography 3
Martin Jehne
Translated by Robert Morstein-Marx and Benjamin Wolkow 2 Literary Sources 29
Edward Bispham 3 Epigraphy and Numismatics 51
Mark Pobjoy 4 The Topography and Archaeology of Republican Rome 81
Mario Torelli
Translated by Helena Fracchia 5 The Physical Geography and Environment of Republican Italy 102Simon Stoddart Part II Narrative 123 6 Between Myth and History: Rome's Rise from Village to Empire (the Eighth Century to 264) 125
Kurt A. Raaflaub 7 Mediterranean Empire (264-134) 147
Daniel J. Gargola 8 From the Gracchi to the First Civil War (133-70) 167
C. F. Konrad 9 The Final Crisis (69-44) 190W. Jeffrey Tatum Part III Civic Structures 213 10 Communicating with the Gods 215
Jörg Rüpke 11 Law in the Roman Republic 236
Michael C. Alexander 12 The Constitution of the Roman Republic 256
John A. North 13 Army and Society 278Paul Erdkamp Part IV Society 297 14 Social Structure and Demography 299
Neville Morley 15 Finding Roman Women 324
Beryl Rawson Part V Political Culture 343 16 The City of Rome 345
John R. Patterson 17 Aristocratic Values 365
Nathan Rosenstein 18 Popular Power in the Roman Republic 383
Alexander Yakobson 19 Patronage 401
Elizabeth Deniaux
Translated by Robert Morstein-Marx and Robert Martz 20 Rhetoric and Public Life 421
Jean-Michel David
Translated by Robert Morstein-Marx and Robert Martz 21 The Republican Body 439Anthony Corbeill Part VI The Creation of a Roman Identity 457 22 Romans and Others 459
Erich S. Gruen 23 History and Collective Memory in the Middle Republic 478
Karl-J. Hölkeskamp 24 Art and Architecture in the Roman Republic 496
Katherine E. Welch 25 Literature 543William W. Batstone Part VII Controversies 565 26 Conceptualizing Roman Imperial Expansion under the Republic: An Introduction 567
Arthur M. Eckstein 27 The Economy: Agrarian Change During the Second Century 590
Luuk de Ligt 28 Rome and Italy 606
John R. Patterson 29 The Transformation of the Republic 625Robert Morstein-Marx and Nathan Rosenstein Bibliography 638 Index 695