Ebook: Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders

This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now been enhanced by a new chapter on material culture, updates to individual chapters, an updated bibliography, and a new introduction.

• Analyzes social conflicts between patricians and plebeians in early republican Rome
  
• Includes chapters by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic illuminating social, economic, legal, religious, military, and political aspects as well as the reliability of historical sources
  
• Contributors have written addenda for the new edition, updating their chapters in light of recent scholarship

Content:
Chapter I The Conflict of the Orders in Archaic Rome: A Comprehensive and Comparative Approach (pages 1–46): Kurt A. Raaflaub
Chapter II The Value of the Literary Tradition Concerning Archaic Rome (pages 47–74): Timothy J. Cornell
Chapter III The Formation of the “Annalistic Tradition”: The Example of the Decemvirate (pages 75–97): Jurgen von Ungern?Sternberg
Chapter IV The Contribution of Archaeology to Early Roman History (pages 98–106): Russell T. Scott
Chapter V Patricians and Plebeians: The Origins of a Social Dichotomy (pages 107–127): Jean?Claude Richard
Chapter VI The Definition of patres and plebs: An End to the Struggle of the Orders (pages 128–167): Richard E. Mitchell
Chapter VII The Rise of the plebs in the Archaic Age of Rome (pages 168–184): Arnaldo Momigliano
Chapter VIII From Protection and Defense to Offense and Participation: Stages in the Conflict of the Orders (pages 185–222): Kurt A. Raaflaub
Chapter IX Religious Aspects of the Conflict of the Orders: The Case of confarreatio (pages 223–238): Jerzy Linderski
Chapter X The Political Significance of the Codification of Law in Archaic Societies: An Unconventional Hypothesis (pages 239–267): Walter Eder
Chapter XI The Tenth Table and the Conflict of the Orders (pages 268–292): Mark Toher
Chapter XII The Integration of the Plebeians into the Political Order After 366 B.C. (pages 293–311): Robert Develin
Chapter XIII The End of the Conflict of the Orders (pages 312–332): Jurgen von Ungern?Sternberg