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Leandro Polverini

Democrazia a Roma? Alla risposta di Moses I. Finley (nel saggio che aprì – o riaprì – il dibattito sul confronto fra «la democrazia degli antichi e dei moderni») bastavano le poche righe di una footnote: «The Romans discussed democracy, too, but what they had to say has little interest. It was derivative in the worst sense, derivative from books alone, since Rome itself was never a democracy by any acceptable definition of that term, though popular institutions were incorporated into the oligarchic governmental system of the Roman Republic»; insomma, «Roma non fu mai una democrazia».

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