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scholarly-interpretation

Mouritsen challenges the familiar two-party model and traces its historiographical formation. This build records dated relationships and actions instead of permanent party badges.

Evidence limit: This is one scholarly argument within a continuing debate; it does not erase ideological or social conflict.

Henrik Mouritsen, Politics in the Roman Republic (2017), pp. 112, 126. Publisher record