Consuls and Res Publica : holding high office in the Roman Republic

"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 magist...

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1. Verfasser: Beck, Hans, 1969-
Weitere Verfasser: Duplá, Antonio (HerausgeberIn), Jehne, Martin, 1955- (HerausgeberIn), Pina Polo, Francisco, 1959-...., historien (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Livre papier
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 2011.
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Anmerkung: Autre tirage : 2015 (broché)
Autre contribution : Francisco Pina Polo
Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Pt. 1. The creation of the consulship
  • The magistrates of the early Roman republic / Christopher Smith
  • The origin of the consulship in Cassius Dio's Roman history / Gianpaolo Urso
  • The development of the praetorship in the third century BC / Alexander Bergk
  • Pt. 2. Powers and functions of the consulship
  • Consular power and the Roman constitution : the case of imperium reconsidered / Hans Beck
  • Consuls as curatores pacis deorum / Francisco Pina Polo
  • The feriae latinae as religious legitimation of the consuls' imperium / Francisco Marco Simón
  • War, wealth, and consuls / Nathan Rosenstein
  • Pt. 3. Symbols, models, self-representation
  • The Roman republic as theatre of power : the consuls as leading actors / Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp
  • The consul(ar) as exemplum : Fabius Cunctator's paradoxical glory / Matthew Roller
  • The rise of the consular as a social type in the third and second centuries BC / Martin Jehne
  • Privata hospitia, beneficia publica? : consul(ar)s, local elite, and Roman rule in Italy / Michael Fronda
  • Pt. 4. Ideology, confrontation, and the end of the republican consulship
  • Consular appeals to the army in 88 and 87 : the locus of legitimacy in late republican Rome / Robert Morstein-Marx
  • Consules populares / Antonio Duplá
  • The consulship of 78 BC : Catulus versus Lepidus : an optimates versus populares affair / Valentina Arena
  • Consulship and consuls under Augustus / Frédéric Hurlet.