Roman Republics

(Princeton University Press) Flower challenges the traditional picture of a single monolithic Roman republic, arguing instead that there were actually multiple republics, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. She claims that there was significantly more change and less continuity over the republican period, which lasted from the late sixth century to the mid-first century B.C., than previously has been assumed. Flower is a professor of classics at Princeton University. She is the author of The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture and Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture, as well as the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic.