Athens and Rome : Plutarch's Theseus and Romulus -- Redeeming lost honor : Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece -- The end of the noble -- No middle way, no second way : Rome and the Caudine Forks -- The politics of authority and rhetoric in republican Rome -- Political murder in Rome -- Power without office, office without power : Augustus's Principate -- Afterword: Greece versus Rome -- Appendix.
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