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Mary Beard Quote: “Electioneering at Rome could be a costly business. By the first century BCE it required the kind of lavish generosity that is not always easy to distinguish from bribery. The stakes were high. The men who were successful in the elections had the chance to recoup their outlay, legally or illegally, with some of the perks of office.”
Mary Beard Quote: “At the same time, in Rome, fears about outsiders flooding into the city were whipped up in a way familiar from many modern campaigns of xenophobia.”
Mary Beard Quote: “His supporters dubbed him pater patriae, or ‘father of the fatherland’, one of the most splendid and satisfying titles you could have in a highly patriarchal society.”
Mary Beard Quote: “At a very rough guess there might have been between 1.5 and 2 million slaves in Italy in the middle of the first century BCE, making up perhaps 20 per cent of the total population. They.”
Mary Beard Quote: “There was the enormous disparity of wealth between rich and poor, the squalid living conditions for most of the population, and probably for much of the time, even if not starvation, then persistent hunger.”
Mary Beard Quote: “Autocracy represented, in a sense, an end of history.”
Mary Beard Quote: “It is hardly surprising that working class movements in many countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found a memorable precedent, and some winning rhetoric, in the ancient story of how the concerted action of the Roman people wrung concessions from the hereditary patrician aristocracy and secured full political rights for the plebeians. Nor is it surprising that early trades unions could look to the plebeian walkouts as a model for a successful strike.”
Mary Beard Quote: “My guest was not the sort to whom you would say, “Please drop by again when you are next around”. Once is enough.”
Mary Beard Quote: “To put it another way, the individual rich voter had far greater voting power than his poorer fellow citizens.”
Mary Beard Quote: “The losers could be as spectacularly cruel as the victors.”
Mary Beard Quote: “Traditional restraints and conventions broke down, one by one, until swords, clubs and rioting more or less replaced the ballot box.”
Mary Beard Quote: “In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before the nineteenth century;.”
Mary Beard Quote: “Elites everywhere tend to worry about places where the lower orders congregate, and.”
Mary Beard Quote: “In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before the nineteenth century; and, although as yet it had no emperors, it ruled over an empire stretching from Spain to Syria, from the South of France to the Sahara. It was a sprawling mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and.”
Mary Beard Quote: “That raised an issue still familiar in modern electoral systems. Are Members of Parliament, for example, to be seen as delegates of the voters, bound to follow the will of their electorate? Or are they representatives, elected to exercise their own judgement in the changing circumstances of government? This.”
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