Jamie Gianoutsos for In Rome's Long Shadow

Historian Jamie Gianoutsos discusses her book In Rome's Long Shadow, tracing how ancient Roman republican ideas shaped modern republics.

Jamie Gianoutsos, Professor of History at Mount St. Mary's University, Maryland, joins Topping & Company Booksellers in Edinburgh to discuss In Rome's Long Shadow, a history of the republican tradition inherited from ancient Rome. The talk traces how Roman figures and ideas of liberty, virtue and corruption influenced the revolutionary birth of modern republics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from America and Britain to France and Haiti. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.