Roman republic

The hypothesis of this dissertation is that republican polities in the ancient world demonstrated a rare form of martial ideology in their citizen armies. Otherwise known as "civic militarism," this martial ideology was directly linked to republicanism's reliance on civic virtue…

This dissertation explores the tenacious, ancient tradition that Rome's imperial success originated in divine ordering, often expressed as the PROVIDENTIA DEORUM. The work details various early components of Greek and Roman civil religion and the further definition of the Roman …