A short study on Theodor Mommsen, including the following sections: Brief biographical profile, The History of Rome (1854-1856), From the History of Rome to Roman Public Law, Mommsen as epigrapher, jurist and scientific organizer, The political commitment, An unique figure?

Among the millions of slaves who lived in Ancient Rome, very few are known with a individualized identity, whose modern reception may be reconstructed. We find, for instance, the names of Spartacus and Eunus, leaders of important slave revolts in Sicily and Italy respectively, in the last century of the Roman Republic. The influence of Spartacus…[Read more]

The paper offers a series of ideas for an analysis of political violence, from the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC to the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the approval of the lex de imperio Vespasiani (AD 68 ). The proposal aims to analyse the presence of political violence, to observe possible continuities in the use of certain…[Read more]