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[ SOLD OUT ] TACOMA, L. E., Roman Political Culture. Seven Studies of the Senate and City Councils of Italy from the First to the Sixth Century AD. Oxford University Press, 2020. 334p. Hardback. Tacoma (Leiden Univ., Netherlands) examines Roman political culture in Italy in a series of case studies spanning the first to sixth centuries AD. All studies address either the Roman senate or town councils in Italy, and each centers on a text or group of texts: Seneca's Apocolocyntosis; election campaign inscriptions from Pompeii; Pliny the Younger's letters on election jokes; an acclamation of the senate on the death of Emperor Commodus, preserved in the Historia Augusta; an inscription recording the grant of privileges to the community of Hispellum by Constantine; documents from Cassiodorus's Variae and inscriptions on draining the Pontine Marshes; and local council records preserved in the Ravenna papyri. ... Tacoma draws a number of cogent original conclusions, some going against received scholarly opinion. F. W. Jenkins, CHOICE June 2021 Vol. 58 No. 10 |a 07/06/2021 (Publisher's information). (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9780198850809