“Politics in Roman times”: the role of the comitia; magistrates; the senate; religion and politics; the disintegration of the Republican system; the emergence of individual leaderships; the partes, optimates and populares; reformism illuminated by the Gracchi elite; the role of intellectuals and the regime of the protesters; Augustus and his firm hand against the political opposition; the decline of the popular assemblies; the court and bureaucracy; politics in the late ancient period towards the Christian empire: the Emperor and the theocratic Emperor.
In addition (students of Antiquity and Roman institutions): politics and religion in Ancient Rome.