This Companion provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Roman Republican history as it is currently practiced. Highlights recent developments, including archaeological discoveries, fresh approaches to textual sources, and the opening up of new areas of historical study Retains the drama of the Republic s rise and fall Emphasizes not just the evidence of texts and physical remains, but also the models and assumptions that scholars bring to these artefacts Looks at the role played by the physical geography and environment of Italy Offers a compact but detailed narrative of military and political developments from the birth of the Roman Republic through to the death of Julius Caesar Discusses current controversies in the field

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 102
Simon 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) 190
W. 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 278
Paul 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 439
Anthony 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 543
William 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 625
Robert Morstein-Marx and Nathan Rosenstein
Bibliography 638
Index 695