Download or read book Politics and Society in Imperial Rome written by Aloys Winterling and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era. Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society Includes case studies on the imperial court and the emperor Caligula, as well as chapters on the scholarship of Theodor Mommsen and Christian Meier