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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : exemplarity, magistracy, and narrative -- Magisterial authority and the politics of affection -- Authority in crisis : the Caudine Forks -- Elections and the generation of exempla -- Elections as narratives of magistracy -- Epilogue : staging authority |
| Summary |
"The study of Roman republican magistracy has traditionally been the preserve of historians posing constitutional and prosopographical questions. As a result, one fundamental aspect of our most detailed contemporary and near-contemporary sources about magistracy has remained largely neglected: their literariness. This book takes a new approach to the representation of magistrates and shows how the rhetorical and formal features of prose texts - principally Livy's history but also works by Cicero and Sallust - shape our understanding of magistracy. Applying to the texts an expanded concept of exemplarity, Haimson Lushkov shows how a rich body of anecdotes concerning the behaviour and speech of magistrates reflects on the values and tensions that defined the republic. A variety of contexts - familial, military, and electoral, among others - flesh out the experience of being, becoming, and encountering a Roman magistrate, and the political and ethical problems highlighted and negotiated in such circumstances"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Magistrates, Roman.
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Political culture -- Rome -- History
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Rome -- History
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Magistrates, Roman
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects
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Beamter
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Geschichtsschreibung
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115116
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115180
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Rome (Empire)
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Römisches Reich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139644303 |
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1139644300 |
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9781316247587 |
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1316247589 |
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