Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic : politics in prose / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magistrates, Roman.

Political culture--Rome--History.

Political culture.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--Rome--History.

Rhetoric.

Political science.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 201 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107040908

1107040906

OCLC:

888401242

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