Abstract
In this rejoinder to Michael Crawford's critical (re)view (pp. 105–14) of Karl-J. Hölkeskamp's book Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research (Princeton 2010), the author answers concrete criticisms, restates his most important positions, perspectives, and proposals on the topic, and gives a survey of possible theories and models, methodological approaches, and conceptual frameworks discussed at length in the book: concepts of ‘politics’, ‘policies’etc. and the overcoming of traditional ‘constitutionalist’ and ‘factionalist’ approaches in recent research; the concept of ‘political culture’ as a catalyst for a change of paradigm and the new look at rituals and other symbolic dimensions of politics; ‘culturalist’, sociological and comparative approaches to ‘city-statehood’ as well as some concrete controversial issues of his so-called ‘elitist’ view of the Roman republic, its political class and the foundations of its self-construction, legitimization, and successful reproduction.
First successful reproduction of the Chinese striped-necked turtle Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) in a European wetland
