Description: This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.
Brief description: Claudia Moatti is Professor of Ancient History at Université de Paris VIII and of Classics at the University of Southern California, with a courtesy joint appointment in Law. Recent projects include an international program on 'The Control of Human Mobility in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period', which culminated in three edited volumes: Le contrôle de la mobilité des personnes en Méditerranée, de l'antiquité à l'époque moderne (2004), Gens de passage en Méditerranée (2007), and Le monde de l'itinérance en Méditerranée (2009). She is currently studying the concept of res publica and the 'cosmopolitanisation' of the Roman Empire (a two-book project under the title Politics and Cosmopolitics).