Frontmatter
List of Abbreviations
Note on the Texts
0: Introduction
1: Pompey and the Reforms of 70
2: Pompey in the East
3: Cato, Stoicism, and the Provinces
4: The Last lex repetundarum
5: The equites and the Extortion Law
6: Metus Parthicus
7: The lex Pompeia de provinciis
8: Cato s Policy
9: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
Kit Morrell completed her doctorate at the University of Sydney and
is currently an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career
Researcher Award fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Her other publications include The Alternative Augustan Age,
co-edited with Josiah Osgood and Kathryn Welch.
The tension between political disruption and imperial expansion is
a familiar theme of the late Republican period, which has long
attracted interest and remains a major focus of enquiry in the
longue durée, not just among ancient historians. This important
book makes a substantial and innovative contribution to its
exploration.
*Federico Santangelo, The Classical Review*
Besides the undeniable value of its contents, the innovative
approach of the book is probably its most significant aspect, since
the author proposes a fresh perspective on the policy applied by
the Romans in their provinces.
*Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
Morrell takes a refreshing look at Caesar's opponents Pompey and
Cato and through them strives to reevaluate several questions of
the late republic ... Morrell certainly challenges some
interpretations long accepted by Roman historians ... The strength
of Morrell's book in many ways is the ability to see relationships
and to connect events that hitherto have been considered to have
little or no association ... The primary achievement of Morrell's
book is the re-interpretation of Cato, who for so long has either
been surrounded with the aura of holiness or attacked for a
philosophical stubbornness detached from reality ... Morrell does
an excellent job of evaluating Cato on his own merits, at least as
much as possible given the sources, which are both encomiastic and
hostile
*Thomas E. Strunk, Polis*
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