Ceremony and Power

Praise / Awards

• "Geoffrey Sumi has written a book that should be on every Roman historian's shelves."
  —Allen M. Ward, New England Classical Journal

• "This is a well-written, informative and useful book . . . an excellent example and an important one, with which those who teach this period in schools should become familiar."
  —John Murrell, The Journal of Classics Teaching

• "Ultimately, the value of Sumi’s book is threefold: first, as an introduction and analysis of Roman public ceremony; second as a clear and elegantly written historical account of a troubled historical period (both in events and in our sources); and third as a contribution to the debate over the role of the populus in the Roman political imagination. A more affordable paperback reissue is particularly welcome as it allows Sumi’s work to reach a wider audience, something this work deserves. ?"
  --Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• "Compellingly written...For historians, teachers and more advanced students it provides a stimulating perspective on how important events played out in a key period of Rome’s transition."
  --Classics for All
• "The value of Sumi's work is that it has revealed the role of consensus between the governing elite and the Roman populus at public ceremonies in effecting the transition."
  --Latomus