Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in ProseCambridge University Press, 9 feb 2015 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. |
Sommario
Magisterial authority and the politics of affection | 30 |
the Caudine Forks | 61 |
Elections and the generation of exempla | 96 |
Elections as narratives of magistracy | 128 |
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Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic Ayelet Haimson Lushkov Anteprima limitata - 2015 |
Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose Ayelet Haimson Lushkov Anteprima non disponibile - 2020 |
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