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Provincial allocations in Rome 123-52 BCE / David Rafferty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rafferty, David, author.
- Series:
- Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)
- Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany). Einzelschriften ; Heft 254.
- Alte Geschichte
- Historia. Einzelschriften ; Band 254
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roman provinces--Administration--History.
- Roman provinces.
- Roman provinces--Administration.
- History.
- Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- 243 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2019]
- Summary:
- This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the provincial allocations system in the late Roman Republic, between the provincial law carried by Gaius Gracchus in 123 BCE and that carried by Pompeius Magnus in 52 BCE. It considers the actual process of allocations, from the Senate's decree of consular and praetorian provinces through to the transfer of command on the ground. Different chapters address the system of allotment (sortitio), the authorisation of troops and funds (ornatio), and the ritual prerequisites for departure, all based solidly on the surviving evidence. An appendix recording the Senate's year-by-year decisions supports this and allows us to see trends in the data.0Since provincial questions were of central importance to the senatorial class, they were the source of many of the political contests which dominate our source record. And at every stage, the institutions shaped the politics. A new picture emerges, of structural conflicts revolving around the relationship between consuls and tribunes. As Rafferty argues, this made the provincial allocations system one of the central causes of Rome's growing political dysfunction in the late Republic.
- Notes:
- Based on doctoral thesis (University of Melbourne, 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783515121194
- 3515121196
- 9783515121248
- 3515121242
- OCLC:
- 1089701796
- Publisher Number:
- 9783515121194
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