| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Magistrates, Roman.
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Political culture -- Rome -- History.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Rome -- History.
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C.
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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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Rome (Empire) |
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Römisches Reich |
| Chronological Term |
265-30 B.C |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet. Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107040908 1107040906 (DLC) 2014032235 |
| ISBN |
9781139644303 (electronic bk.) |
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1139644300 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316247587 (electronic bk.) |
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1316247589 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107040908 |
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1107040906 |
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