Consuls and Res Publica (eBook, ePUB)

Holding High Office in the Roman Republic
Redaktion: Beck, Hans

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic's highest office - to be sure, from different perspectives and with differing expectations. While the former aspired to the consulate as the defining magistracy of their social status, the latter perceived it as the embodiment of the Roman state. Holding high office was thus not merely a political exercise. The consulate prefigured all aspects of public life, with consuls taking care of almost every aspect of the administration of the Roman state. This multifaceted character of the consulate invites a holistic investigation. The scope of this book is therefore not limited to political or constitutional questions. Instead, it investigates the predominant role of the consulate in and its impact on, the political culture of the Roman republic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139140034
• Artikelnr.: 52956219

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Hans Beck, Antonio Duplá, Martin Jehne and Francisco Pina
Polo; Part I. The Creation of the Consulship: 1. The magistrates of the
early Roman Republic Christopher Smith; 2. The origin of the consulship in
Cassius Dio's Roman History Gianpaolo Urso; 3. The development of the
praetorship in the third century BC Alexander Bergk; Part II. Powers and
Functions of the Consulship: 4. Consular power and the Roman constitution:
the case of imperium reconsidered Hans Beck; 5. Consuls as curatores pacis
deorum Francisco Pina Polo; 6. The feriae latinae as religious legitimation
of the consuls' imperium Francisco Marco Simón; 7. War, wealth and consuls
Nathan Rosenstein; Part III. Symbols, Models, Self-Representation: 8. The
Roman Republic as theatre of power: the consuls as leading actors
Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp; 9. The consul(ar) as exemplum: fabius cunctator's
paradoxical glory Matthew Roller; 10. The rise of the consular as a social
type in the third and second centuries BC Martin Jehne; 11. Privata
hospitia, beneficia publica? Consul(ar)s, local elite, and Roman rule in
Italy Michael Fronda; Part IV. Ideology, Confrontation and the End of the
Republican Consulship: 12. Consular appeals to the army in 88 and 87: the
locus of legitimacy in late Republican Rome Robert Morstein-Marx; 13.
Consules populares Antonio Duplá; 14. The consulship of 78 BC: Catulus
versus Lepidus: an optimates versus populares affair Valentina Arena; 15.
Consulship and consuls under Augustus Frédéric Hurlet.