Draws on archaeological evidence to reconstruct voting procedures in the assemblies "Theodor Mommsen's Römisches Staatsrecht is a monument, an Egyptian pyramid, everlasting and heavy; Lily Ross Taylor's Roman Voting Assemblies, no less erudite and no less perspicacious, is like a Venetian palace, a marvel of light and clarity. Cautious and firm in judgment, never obfuscating, the author presents the evidence—literary, inscriptional, and numismatic—and illuminates all the ways and byways of the balloting in Republican Rome. As the right to vote and the voting procedure are central issues in every republican system, this volume has been for years an indispensable guide and companion of every student of Rome. It is a classic." —Jerzy Linderski