Reforming the Roman Republic

该项目旨在产生关于罗马共和国晚期制度改革的新知识，以及改革在古罗马作为一个概念的相关性。通过分析罗马人如何谈论和书写改革，并考察各种特殊的改革努力，该项目寻求罗马改革话语和改革过程能够产生结构变化的证据。预期的结果包括对共和政体的全新理解，以及对共和政体因无力改革而衰落的传统观点的另一种看法。该项目将有利于罗马历史的研究，并促进与跨学科学者的对话，这些学者质疑古代社会的可改革性；因此，它也有助于理解当代社会的改革。

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.