Rationalization and Religious Change in Republican Rome.

E. Gabba, Republican Rome: The Armies and the Allies (1976) 120 ff for analysis of Sertorius's policy toward Mithradates.

When Republican Rome turned into a de facto monarchy in the second half of the 1st century BC, at first there was no name for the title of the new type of monarch.

Let us, however, confine our attention for a while to Polybius who was a specialist in constitutional and military history and who for four centuries conditioned modern thinking about Republican Rome.

The system was frequently compared to Republican Rome and to the Greek polis - though each of these eventually surrendered to imperial rule or to tyrants.

Cambridge Companion to Republican Rome by H Flower (ed), (CUP, 2004)

Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (Ithaca, 1992; pb 1994)

"Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome."

Erich S. Gruen, Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome, Cornell University Press, 1992.

However, in Republican Rome this was undoubtedly a full-time job for several men, so many were the ceremonies requiring sacrifice of an animal victim.