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1 online resource (388 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; The republic and its highest office: some introductory remarks on the Roman consulate; PART I The creation of the consulship; Chapter 1 The magistrates of the early Roman republic; Chapter 2 The origin of the consulship in Cassius Dio's Roman History; Preliminary remarks; The a???? and his s??a????; From st?at???? to?pat??; The two colleges of decemvirs; Conclusion; Chapter 3 The development of the praetorship in the third century BC; PART II Powers and functions of the consulship |
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Chapter 4 Consular power and the Roman constitution: the case of imperium reconsideredThe numbers game; More distortions; Imperium in space; Imperium as elite ideology and social capital; Chapter 5 Consuls as curatores pacis deorum; The expiation of prodigia; The feriae latinae; The sacra of lavinium; Praesides ludorum; Ver sacrum; Chapter 6 The Feriae Latinae as religious legitimation of the consuls' imperium; Chapter 7 War, wealth and consuls; PART III Symbols, models, self-representation; Chapter 8 The Roman republic as theatre of power: the consuls as leading actors |
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Chapter 9 The consul(ar) as exemplum: Fabius Cunctators paradoxical gloryIntroduction; The ethics of delay; The paradoxes of delay; Post, magis, nunc: fabius revalued and exemplified; Conclusion: traces of a different fabius; Chapter 10 The rise of the consular as a social type in the third and second centuries BC; Chapter 11 Privata hospitia, beneficia publica? Consul(ar)s, local elite and Roman rule in Italy; PART IV Ideology, confrontation and the end of the republican consulship; Chapter 12 Consular appeals to the army in 88 and 87: the locus of legitimacy in late-republican Rome |
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Chapter 13 Consules popularesThe populares and the crisis of the republic; Consules populares; M. Fulvius Flaccus; C. Marius; Cinnanum tempus; M. Aemilius Lepidus; C. Aurelius Cotta; Cn. Pompeius (Pompey); M. Licinius Crassus; C. Iulius Caesar; Marcus Tullius Cicero, consul popularis; Some observations on the populares consuls; Chapter 14 The consulship of 78 BC. Catulus versus Lepidus: an optimates versus populares affair; Introduction; The consulship of 78; Catulus the optimas and lepidus the popularis; The moral language of psychology; Optimates' ideas at work; Conclusion |
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Chapter 15 Consulship and consuls under AugustusPreliminary remarks and historiographical clarifications; Continuity of the republic; Developments with regard to the republic; Augustus' and the aristocracy's view of the consulship; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of persons; Subject index |
| Summary |
A comprehensive discussion of the supreme magistrates in Rome, from the beginning of the Republic until the age of Augustus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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English |
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Consuls, Roman -- History
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Political culture -- Rome -- History
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Power (Social sciences) -- Rome -- History
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Social classes -- Rome -- History
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Social status -- Rome -- History
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Consuls, Roman
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Political culture
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social classes
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Social status
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Consuls.
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Romeinse oudheid.
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Romeinse rijk.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Duplá, Antonio
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Jehne, Martin
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Pina Polo, Francisco
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| LC no. |
2011017494 |
| ISBN |
9781139137751 |
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1139137751 |
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128331665X |
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9781283316651 |
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9781139145084 |
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1139145088 |
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1139141767 |
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9781139141765 |
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9780511736124 |
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0511736126 |
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1139140035 |
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9781139140034 |
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1139139304 |
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9781139139304 |
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9786613316653 |
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6613316652 |
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1139140884 |
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9781139140881 |
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