Reforming the Roman Republic

该项目旨在产生罗马共和国后期体制改革的新知识，以及改革作为古罗马概念的相关性。通过分析罗马人如何谈论和写作改革，并检查各种特定的改革努力，该项目寻求罗马改革话语和改革过程能够产生结构性变化的证据。预期的成果包括对共和国治理的新理解，以及对共和国因无力改革而衰落的传统观点的替代。该项目应有助于研究罗马历史，并促进与质疑古代社会改革能力的跨学科学术的对话;因此，它也为理解当代社会的改革提供了信息。

This project aims to generate new knowledge of institutional reform in the late Roman republic and the relevance of reform as a concept in ancient Rome. By analysing how Romans spoke and wrote about reform and examining a variety of particular reform efforts, the project seeks evidence of a Roman reform discourse and reform processes capable of producing structural change. Expected outcomes include fresh understanding of republican governance and an alternative to the conventional view that the republic fell because of its inability to reform itself. This project should benefit the study of Roman history and foster dialogue with interdisciplinary scholarship which has questioned the reformability of ancient societies; it thus also informs the understanding of reform in contemporary societies.