scholarly journals "Against Justice": Cicero as a Textual Source and Interpreter of Testimonies about the "Philosophical Embassy" and the Carneades’ Skeptical Speeches

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 844-855
Author(s):  
Denis A. Fedorov
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Methodological Principle ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
De Re ◽  
Textual Source ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Late Roman

The article is devoted to the problem of reflection in the texts of Cicero of evidence of the propaganda and educational activities of the "philosophical embassy" in Rome under the leadership Carneades as the head of the new Academy, and the content of his philosophical speeches before the Roman audience. Particular attention is paid to the problem of Cicero's interpretation of the text of the famous speech of Carneades "Against Justice" that has not come down to us, which is reflected in the partially preserved third book of the treatise De Re Publica. According to the author of the article, Cicero, trying to popularize the methodological principle of philosophizing characteristic of skeptics, updated and modernized the theses of Carneades in relation to the realities of his era and his own pragmatic goals in the specific socio-political conditions of the crisis of the late Roman Republic.

Fighting Corruption

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Arena
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Roman Republic ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Republican Rome ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Late Roman

Corruption was seen as a major factor in the collapse of Republican Rome, as Valentina Arena’s subsequent essay “Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic” argues. It was in reaction to this perception of the Republic’s political fortunes that an array of legislative and institutional measures were established and continually reformed to become more effective. What this chapter shows is that, as in Greece, the public sphere was distinct from the private sphere and, importantly, it was within this distinction that the foundations of anticorruption measures lay. Moreover, it is difficult to defend the existence of a major disjuncture between moralistic discourses and legal-political institutions designed to patrol the public/private divide: both were part of the same discourse and strategy to curb corruption and improve government.

Trials in the Late Roman Republic 149 B.C. to 50 B.C.

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 732
Author(s):  
J. Drew Harrington ◽  
Michael C. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Late Roman

Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic

Phoenix ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 415-417
Author(s):  
Eleanor Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Late Roman

Wheat Prices and Trade in the Early Roman Empire

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Temin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Roman Republic ◽  
Small Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Small Data Sets ◽  
Few Data ◽  
Late Roman

This chapter discusses how there is little of what economists call data on markets in Roman times, despite lots of information about prices and transactions. Data, as economists consider it, consist of a set of uniform prices that can be compared with each other. According to scholars, extensive markets existed in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. Even though there is a lack of data, there are enough observations for the price of wheat, the most extensively traded commodity, to perform a test. The problem is that there is only a little bit of data by modern standards. Consequently, the chapter explains why statistics are useful in interpreting small data sets and how one deals with various problems that arise when there are only a few data points.

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