The Quaestorship In The Roman Republic

Author : Francisco Pina Polo,Alejandro Díaz Fernández
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110666410

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The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic by Francisco Pina Polo,Alejandro Díaz Fernández Pdf

The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship. The book contains a study of the quaestorship throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy (particularly at Rome) and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the office, an analysis of its role within the cursus honorum and its larger importance for the Roman constitution as well as the prosopography of all quaestors known during the Republican period based on the literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence. The quaestorship was always an office for beginners who aspired to follow a political career and hence served as institutional entrance to the senate. Despite their youth, quaestors were endowed with functions of great significance at Rome and abroad, such as the control and supervision of Rome’s finances. As the book shows, the quaestorship was a prominent and essential part of the Roman administration.

Author : Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444339659

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A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic by Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles Pdf

An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.

Author : Andrew Lintott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191584671

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The Constitution of the Roman Republic by Andrew Lintott Pdf

There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome's empire. He regarded the Republic as unusual in two respects: first, because it functioned so well despite being a mix of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy; secondly, because the constitution was the product of natural evolution rather than the ideals of a lawgiver. Even if historians now seek more widely for the causes of Rome's rise to power, the importance and influence of her political institutions remains. The reasons for Rome's power are both complex, on account of the mix of elements, and flexible, inasmuch as they were not founded on written statutes but on unwritten traditions reinterpreted by successive generations. Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment.

Author : Catalina Balmaceda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004441699

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Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic by Catalina Balmaceda Pdf

Libertas and Res Publica examines two key concepts of Western political thinking: freedom and republic. Contributors address important new questions on the principles of, and essential connection between res publica and libertas in Roman thought and Republican history.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032248

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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic by Harriet I. Flower Pdf

This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307427519

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Rubicon by Tom Holland Pdf

A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition.

Author : Cary Michael Barber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004530010

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Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer by Cary Michael Barber Pdf

Politics in the Roman Republic rewrites the field’s modern historiographical narrative through critical re-examinations of four foundational historians: Barthold Niebuhr, Theodor Mommsen, Friedrich Münzer, and Matthias Gelzer. Each chapter traces these scholars’ impact and offers novel (re)interpretations of their enduring frameworks, conceptual and methodological alike.

Author : T. Corey Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0199771359

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The Praetorship in the Roman Republic by T. Corey Brennan Pdf

Brennan's book surveys the history of the Roman praetorship, which was one of the most enduring Roman political institutions, occupying the practical center of Roman Republican administrative life for over three centuries. The study addresses political, social, military and legal history, as well as Roman religion. Volume I begins with a survey of Roman (and modern) views on the development of legitimate power--from the kings, through the early chief magistrates, and down through the creation and early years of the praetorship. Volume II discusses how the introduction in 122 of C. Gracchus' provincia repetundarum pushed the old city-state system to its functional limits.

Author : Díaz Fernández, Alejandro
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9788447230891

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Provinces and Provincial Command in Republican Rome: Genesis, Development and Governance by Díaz Fernández, Alejandro Pdf

When the Roman Republic became the master of an overseas empire, the Romans had to adapt their civic institutions so as to be able to rule the dominions that were successively subjected to their imperium. As a result, Rome created an administrative structure mainly based on an element that became the keystone of its empire: the provincia. This book brings together nine contributions from a total of ten scholars, all specialists in Republican Rome and the Principate, who analyse from diverse perspectives and approaches the distinct ways in which the Roman res publica constituted and ruled a far-flung empire. The book ranges from the development of the Roman institutional structures to the diplomatic and administrative activities carried out by the Roman commanders overseas. Beyond the subject on which each author focuses, all chapters in this volume represent significant and renewed contributions to the study of the provinces and the Roman empire during the Republican period and the transition to the Principate.

Author : Wilfried Nippel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521387493

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Public Order in Ancient Rome by Wilfried Nippel Pdf

Often identified as a major cause of the Republic's collapse, the absence of a professional police force in classical Rome was in fact a characteristic shared with other premodern states. The mechanisms of self-regulation that operated as a stabilizing force are examined in this study.

Author : Liv Mariah Yarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781107013735

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The Roman Republic to 49 BCE by Liv Mariah Yarrow Pdf

A richly-illustrated introduction to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman republic.

Author : Robert C. Byrd
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0160589967

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The Senate of the Roman Republic by Robert C. Byrd Pdf

Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Constitution of the Roman Republic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Plutarch,London Association of Classical Teachers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056924346

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Cato the Younger by Plutarch,London Association of Classical Teachers Pdf

A translation with brief comment.

Author : George Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Rome
ISBN : WISC:89100037464

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The Decline of the Roman Republic by George Long Pdf